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Nintendo launched the Wii U in North America yesterday. The game console sells for $249 for a version with 8 GB of storage and $349 for a version with 32 GB of storage plus extras like a free copy of Nintendo Land and a stand for the Wii Tablet controller. Both versions come with a massive 5GB software update that takes over an hour to install. Some new Wii U owners report interrupting the install with a power outage or Internet disruption can brick the console.

Intel's Paul Otellini will retire from his president and CEO post in May 2013. The time frame will give the board of directors around 6 months to look for a worthy successor. The board said that it's open to either internal or external candidates for the job. Otellini will retire after almost 40 years of employment with Intel.

Xbox World published all kinds of details about the next Xbox. The magazine calls it the Xbox 720 and says it will have a Blu-ray drive, the ability to watch and record television, and a new version of the Kinect. The 720 would also have a new controller, which has been previously rumored to have an HD touch screen.

Cisco announced Sunday it will pay $1.2 billion to buy Meraki, a company started by MIT grads and backed by Google and Sequoia among others. Meraki provides cloud control and security for WiFi networks and mobile devices. if you've used WiFi at a Starbucks, you've used Meraki.'

Last week a report made the rounds that Apple would be delaying the new 21.5 and 27-inch iMac because of an issue with the welding process in the iMac's aluminum body. Although 9to5Mac has sources that say they'll be shipping on time after all. However, iMacs launching on time doesn't mean that they'll be available right away. Outside the U.S., the computers will likely be in short supply through the end of the year.

Samsung has filed with an intellectual property tribunal in Korea seeking to invalidate a bunch of LG OLED patents. Samsung says those patents lack innovation. Back in September, LG sued Samsung over violating seven of the patents Samsung is now seeking to get invalidated.

9to5 Mac's reliable sources are at it again, with a believable rumor that the next version of OS X, 10.9 could come with Siri and Apple Maps. The sources rerpot early builds of 10.9, possibly codenamed Lynx, are still under development, but currently include the two services.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston has approved the $22.5M fine Google has agreed to pay in order to settle FTC claims that it illegally bypassed user privacy settings in Safari. Google and the FTC reached the settlement agreement in August when Google agreed to pay a fine because it "placed an advertising tracking cookie on the computers of Safari users who visited sites within Google's DoubleClick advertising network.". It's the largest fine the FTC has ever imposed against a single company.

The Verge points to a thread at WPCentral where users of Windows Phone 8 devices from HTC and Nokia all report random reboots of their phones. The Verge reports a phone they were testing rebooted on more than one occasion. A thread on Microsoft's support forums regarding the issue has more than 65 replies.

There's a bug in the latest version of Android. If you try to input a contact's birthday, you'll find that there is no option to select December as the month. The bug affects the Android 4.2 People app. Google is working on a fix that will hit in the next update.

Wii U flying off shelves, greay market sales anywhere from $100 ($349 32GB) above retail to $3,000. (10-pack Twinkies bundled $5,000)- Software update is 5GB (more than 1 hour), some users reporting bricked consoles if lost power or internet- In that huge software update comes Netflix, though rest of TVii still not expected until December- During signup oif you admit to being younger than 18 it requires a 50 cent credit card charge- Anandtech teardown: Rendering the Wii U menu actually consumes almost as much power as playing Super Mario U.

L.A. Times reporter Ben Fritz is one of the most prominent people to tweet that his system was rendered useless by an interruption

- Xbox World says it's got details on the Xbox 720- Xbox 720 would have: Kinect 2.0. A leaked MS doc says that the next Kinect would be more accurate, better voice recognition, stereo imaging and be able to track four players at once- Microsoft is also eyeing AR (augmented reality) glasses for the 720 at some future stage.- Blu-ray- Input and output for watching and recording TV- an "innovative controller" - Last Feb, Xbox World said the controller would include a built-in HD touch screen- Power: Quad-core processor, 8GB RAM- Xbox World even put together a 3D mock up

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Early builds of Apple’s upcoming OS X 10.9 include Siri and Maps integration

- sources tell 9to5Mac that Siri and Maps are coming to OS X 10.9, due out next year- Dictation uses a similar infrastructure and hardware resources as Siri, available on all Macs capable of running Mountain Lion. but Siri restricted on iOS to newer devices. - Apple reportedly offering MapKit framework for devs, in OS X 10.9, Apple might want own full-fledged Maps app on the Mac

- meanwhile, apple suffered game center/imessage outage a few times over last few months, happened again over the weekend, facetime & iTunes Match down too. - iTunes Match is a paid service that users pay $24.99 per year to use. - ac/dc entire collection now available in itunes. long a holdout, didn't like idea of buying single song, protected album

- GG most well-known of the social/second screen type apps. "check into" shows, custom tv guides, video extras, links, connect with others - Viggle acquired it for $25 million in cash and 48.3 million shares in stock, will hire on all 34 GG employees. - CEO Alex Iskold will join Viggle in senior executive position & sit on Board of Directors.- Viggle - android and ios app gives points for loyalty to and engagement with show content. Points can be redeemed for real-world rewards from places like Best Buy, Amazon, Fandango, Hulu Plus and iTunes. Viggle’s audio verification technology recognizes and allows users to check into live, DVR’d and online TV content from broadcast/cable channels. - Viggle LIVE: trivia, voting and poll that is in synch with what the viewer is watching on their television. - MyGuy is a real-time fantasy sports game that recognizes the teams playing when the viewer checks into a game with Viggle.

- GetGlue founded in 2007. 3.2 million registered users as well as a database with more than 500 million entertainment ratings and check-ins.- Viggle launched in Jan this year, originally called Function(x). 1.2 million registered users. changed name in June to Viggle.

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Microsoft reported earlier this week that Halo 4 sold $220 million in its first 24 hours after launch. N00bs. Activision reports Call of Duty Black Ops II grossed $500 million in its first 24 hours marking the 4th consecutive year that Activision gets to claim the largest entertainment launch of the year. May the trash talking begin.

The WiiU looks like an early hit this holiday season, and we've got numbers to prove it. Gamestop says that it's taken 1.2M preorders for WiiU games and 500,000 consoles, working out to 2.4 games for each console. The 1.2M number is more than double the game preorders for the Wii, and the difference is likely due to increased third party support from the console. They have big fall titles like Assassin’s Creed 3 and Black Ops 2 on deck, but also original offerings like Ubisoft’s ZombiU

Our long national nightmare may be soon over. The WSJ reports that Google is putting the "finishing touches" on its iOS maps app and the new app will include turn-by-turn navigation. The app has yet to be submitted to Apple's App Store.

Tis the season. [[pause for co-hosts to incorrectly guess which season]] No no no come on y'all it's Apple TV rumor season! Yeah you know when Analyst Clause, in this case James Kisner of Jefferies and Co. visits all the good children of the Web and gives them hope of an imminent launch of AppleTV by leaving them rumors that at least one major North American multiple system operator is working to estimate how much additional capacity may be needed for a new Apple device on their broadband data network. Happy Apple TV rumor-mas everybody!!!

Twitter has added the ability to share tweets via e-mail and the feature will be rolling out to all users in the coming weeks. “Of course, you can retweet any of these to your Twitter followers, but sometimes you want to share with another group, like your college roommates or your parents or a friend who isn’t yet on Twitter,” wrote Twitter engineer Stefan Flip in the post. Third-party Twitter programs such as Hootsuite already provide that function; so does the Twitter client the company bought last year, Tweetdeck.

According to the WSJ, Dish is in preliminary talks with several companies including Google to partner up on a new wireless service that would rival Verizon, AT&T and other carriers. Dish is still awaiting FCC approval to use its spectrum for cell service. One of the sources said the talks could lead to nothing, but we can dream, can't we?

10 year old game, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City has been yanked from Steam thanks to a copyright claim by Sony Music Entertainment. Seems the Fever 105 Radio station in the game plays Michael Jackson's "Wanna be Starting Something" without a proper license. If you own the game already on Steam you'll still get to re-download and play it, but no new sales are allowed until the matter is cleared up. No word on how or whether it would affect the upcoming Android and iOS release of the game.

US Judge Paul S. Grewal has ruled that both Apple and Samsung may add additional products to their lawsuit scheduled to begin hearings in 2014. What are these new products? the iPhone 5, Galaxy Note, and Galaxy S III. The suit is being fought in the US District Court of California in San Jose, the same court where Apple was awarded a $1.05 billion damage verdict against Samsung. Samsung in particular has been eyeing the iPHone 5 since it launched in September. Both company’s have “accused each other of copying designs and technology for mobile devices.”

Cash, check or BitCoin? Many people long for the day when they can pay for more things with BitCoin. Well that day just got a little closer folks. WordPress will soon let you pay for upgrades to its blogging service in BitCoins. WordPress hopes this will make it easier for users worldwide to make payments.

Facebook's announced new retail partners for its Facebook Gifts feature just before the holidays. Random House, Brookstone, and Fab are just some of the new partners and Facebook says it will add more retailers soon. Facebook Gifts will also allow you to gift subscriptions to Rdio, Pandora and Hulu Plus.

- The Wall Street Journal reports Google has held talks with Dish Network to build a wireless service - would put it as a competitor to ATT and Vz- Talks are not advanced- Google is one of several companies Dish is looking to partner with- Dish chairman Charlie Ergen declined to comment on Google specificially and said it would be easier for Dish to partner w/ a company that has wireless towers and related infrastructure

Background- Google just launched its fiber service this week in KC- Dish is still awaiting regulatory approval to use its spectrum to launch a wireless service - Dish has asked the Federal Communications Commission to allow it to use the spectrum for a solely ground-based cellphone network. The FCC denied Dish a needed waiver last March, opting for a yearlong deliberation process that has yet to reach completion.- Partner hunt shows good faith that Dish would create a wireless network, not just flip the spectrum said "some people familiar with the discussions"

Q: Would the partnership make sense for Google? Why enter into that market?

The Wii U is already sold out online and hard to get elsewhere- Launches in stores this SundayJohn Taylor of Arcadi says scarcity will stoke demand through spring, May is critical point- Wedbush's Michael Pachter: "The Wii U will quickly lose positive momentum from its launch due primarily to pricing,"- Ubisoft the only partner to fully embrace the platform, few Wii U specific titles- Best bets afor differentiation are a big game exclusive, advantage of tablet in gameplay, or better alternative uses (TVii)- TVii launching in December with Netflix, Hulu + and Amazon coming in the next few weeks- Integrates with TiVo allows posting to Twitter, Facebook and Miiverse

GameStop estimates 1.2 million pre-orders for the Wii U at GameStop, double the Wii

- over 100 popular and relevant musicians (katy perry, rihanna, TOTO, The Doors, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy) have signed an open letter attacking the Internet Radio Fairness Act. reminder this legislation set royalties for online music streaming services the same as rates for satellite music services - 10%. pandora right now, 50%. terrestrial radio, 0%- Pandora-backed proposal is sponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), backed by public interest groups Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge.- royalty rates for internet streaming set every 5 years by a three-judge panel, based on willing buyers and sellers in an open market. without competitive market, judges err on high side. - in contrast for satellite and cable radio, the judges set prices to give the labels and artists a 'fair return' and the music service a 'fair income.'" pandora wants this. - what recording co's want: legislation sponsored by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) would equalize royalty rules by extending the "willing buyer and a willing seller" standard to the satellite and terrestrial radio markets. national assn. of broadcasters is not pleased

Founder Tim Westergren to The Hill: "It's kind of a Jekyll-and-Hyde business," Westergren told The Hill. "On the growth side, it's been a wonderful story. Profitability is a different story for us. We're really struggling to make that happen."

- Google modified its Android SDK this week, first significant addition since the previous update in 2009. Adds an anti-fragmentation clause:

- Section 3.4 of Google's new terms: "You agree that you will not take any actions that may cause or result in the fragmentation of Android, including but not limited to distributing, participating in the creation of, or promoting in any way a software development kit derived from the SDK."

- The Register tried to make sense of the new rule and looked at the case of an Acer-built handset which ran Alibaba's Alyun software which wasn't fully compatible w/Android, but used Android runtime, frameworks and dev tools.

Q: Can you tell what this section is for? Developers don't seem to be for fragmentation - is the Register reading this right?

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- software update for Lytro Desktop from cam that lets you set focus after photo is taken. 2 new features, Perspective Shift and Living Filters- Perspective Shift lets you change the POV of the shot after it's taken, putting entire photo to be in focus. click-and-drag the photo in any direction to get 3D effect. works with accelerometer on tablets. share the images to Facebook or Twitter from the Lytro website- Living Filters: click to filter certain parts of a photo with one of nine different effects: Carnival, Crayon, Glass, Line Art, Mosaic, Blur+, Pop, Film Noir and 8-Track. - Lytro tells engadget they'll work on more robust photoshop-like features on their own, & welcome a robust third-party ecosystem as well.

Aaron Sorkin interview at The Daily Beast's Hero Summitin Washington DC Thursday- Sorkin writing movie based on Walter Isaacson book- "This entire movie is going to be three scenes, and three scenes only, that all take place in real time," - Each scene will last 30 minutes for the characters and the audience- "Each of these scenes is going to take place backstage before a product launch—the first one being the Mac, the second one being NeXT, and the third one being the iPod."- Wants to end the film with the voiceover from Apple's Think Different ads- Jobs asked Sorkin to write a Pixar movie. Sporkin said he couldn't make an inanimate object talk Jobs said once you make them talk they won't be inanimate anymore.

As a licensed charter party carrier in California let me provide a perspective on why PUC is against Uber, Lyft and Sidecar.

The short of it is, if a company's main business is arrange transportation of people for pay (but not taxi), they are a charter party carrier and thus subject to PUC regulations.

Uber acts as a dispatch service, but the individual vehicles appear to be privately owned and operated. and individually licensed. PUC is slightly outdated as it does not recognize a pure-dispatch service such as Uber, i.e. So it just needs to create a new permit category: the fleet-less carrier that subcharters EVERYTHING.

Lyft and Sidecar, on the other hand, are in much deeper trouble, as they engage common NON-COMMERCIAL drivers to perform commercial activity, i.e. carry people for pay, without that person owning a commercial driver's license...

PUC is unlikely to allow Lyft or Sidecar to survive, for the very simple reason that pay for ride is under their jurisdiction. They can't allow non-commercial driver to do commercial driver's jobs: carry people (or goods) for money.

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Interesting discussion in episode #629 regarding the possible sale of AMD. The one company you didn't list was... Google!

Owning the processor would help their massive data center farm (where Google is known for designing their own servers), giving them a leg up on the Amazons of the world. Also, owning a processor / graphics company could give them an edge in the smart phone business, where they could design-in magic stuff that would make Android work better, something I expect Apple is already doing with IOS and their own processor line.

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Steven Sinofsky loves to write explanation on the Internet. he loved it when he was blogging endlessly about Windows 8, and nothing has changed now that he's left Microsoft. In comments on retired Microsoft engineer Hal Berenson's blog, Sinofsky denies that he pushed to take over Windows Phone and said it's "far better to collaborate". Steve Ballmer had only nice things to say about Sinofsky at a talk with LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman at the Churchill Club.

Steve Ballmer had some choice descriptions of Microsoft's 2 biggest mobile rivals in that same interview last night. He called the Android ecosystem “wild,” “uncontrolled” and susceptible to malware, and called the Apple ecosystem “high-priced” and “highly controlled,” and that iPhones cost upwards of $1,000 internationally. Ballmer says Microsoft has done products right & is working very closely with developers, unlike his counterparts at Apple and Google. lolwut?

The tablets are in the mail. The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is shipping starting today - but just the Wi-Fi only model. The LTE version is coming next week on November 20th. Go forth and enjoy your Amazon content on that glorious 1920 x 1200 display.

Israel is using Internet services like Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr to tell its side of the current conflict with Hamas in Gaza. YouTube briefly removed a video posted by Israeli military showing a pinpoint strike that killed Hamas military leader Ahmed al-Jabari. A YouTube spokeswoman told All Things D the video was removed mistakenly and was quickly reinstated.

Two weeks ago a NASA employee's laptop containing "personally identifiable information" was stolen from inside a car, and now there's some worry that agency's workers are at risk of identity theft. The laptop's hard drive wasn't encrypted, and neither were sensitive documents within. It's not the 1st time this sort of thing has happened, either. NASA Inspector General Paul Martin told Congress earlier this year that an estimated 48 laptops and mobile devices had been lost or stolen from April 2009 and April 2011, and only 1% of such agency devices had encryption.

Texas Instruments announced it's cutting 1700 jobs worldwide to save money. The move is part of a larger plan for TI to leave the smartphone processor manufacturing business. The company says it will focus its processors on embedded markets and that requires fewer resources.

Todd Bradley had some blunt things to say about Microsoft's Surface RT tablet when explaining HP's strategy in personal computing for the coming year. Bradley, Executive Vice President of HP’s Printing and Personal Systems organization, told CITEWorld's Matt Rosoff he considered the Surface "hardly compeition" and called it "slow and a little kludgey". HP intends to focus on Enterprise tablets until next year.

Samsung's got its own version of a Yoga! The company may start mass production of bendable smartphones that kick, and stretch! One of its subsidiaries, Samsung Display, is in the last stage of development of flexible AMOLED displays, which are expected to be released in the first half of next year, a person familiar with the situation revealed to the Wall Street Journal. Bendable displays are practically unbreakable and opens the door to creation all types of news shapes of smartphone.

Faster WiFi is on the horizon my friends. A group from NC State University will release a paper shortly detailing a way to boost WiFi data throughput by up to 700 percent. The technology, called WiFox, has already made their local test network 4 times faster. The trick is assigning priority access to prevent traffic jams. Lead author Arpit Gupta says WiFox could work on existing WiFi networks as a software update.

If you've got an LG G2 Smart Tv, you'll have OnLive built into your Google TV experience. That means you'll be able to play games on your LG without needing a separate box. The LG G2 is available in two versions - a $1700 47-inch TV and a $2300 54.6-inch model. OnLive will also come preinstalled on all new LG Google TVs.

What Hal said:- Hal Berenson said in a blog post titled "Live Long and Prosper SteveSi," "Steven had apparently lost recent battles to bring both Windows Phone and the Developer Division under his control."- Berenson says that he thinks Sinofsky didn't get control of WP and the Developer Division b/c "is that most of the top 2-3 levels of leadership in those organizations would have quit."

What Sinfosky said:- He denies initiating any discussions to bring together WP and Dev Division and said no one approached him to manage them as a part of Win 7 or 8- Sinofsky says that the current state of organization is a "practical working model" and he was for collaboration within the organization rather than disrupting it "unless it is on a product cycle boundary and far better to plan and execute together…"

Q: The murmurs say power struggle, Sinofsky denies it and even publicly commented. What do you think the real story is?

Interview with IDG Enterprise, Executive Vice President of HP’s Printing and Personal Systems organization Todd Bradley called it 'hardly competition' because of limited distribution.- "It tends to be slow and a little kludgey as you use it .... It's expensive. Holistically, the press has made a bigger deal out of Surface than what the world has chosen to believe."- What has HP got? No consumer tablets ont he market right now. ONe Enterprise-level ElitePad900- "We're not entering the consumer tablet fray any time soon. We'll be doing something next year, but you won't see a consumer tablet from HP before Christmas. You'll see convertibles that are focused on how you use the device, keyboard, clamshell."- Bradley was the CEO of Palm- On death of the PC: "You guys have been writing about how the PC has been dead for 20 years. You and your colleagues have. Desktops are going to morph depending on where you are. All-in-ones in China, are clearly a significant piece of the Chinese market. The usage models as you look at these emerging markets, as excited as we are going to get about ultra-mobile, the billion people in rural China still want PCs that have DVD players in them. it's all about usage."

"Surface is already the most popular single device running Windows 8/RT with 11 percent of the overall 'market,'" according to AdDuplex, a Windows ad-serving business. -- HP was the largest brand among Windows 8/RT devices, with 17 percent. Microsoft was second with 11 percent (cited above), Dell was third with 10 percent, and Acer fourth with 9 percent.

- yesterday mark cuban said FB is screwing over brands. now FB rolled out pages-only feed- "The purpose of this whole News Feed algorithm change was really because we saw the incidents of people hiding stories ... or marking stories as spam has gone up, and we really want to keep News Feed as engaging a place as possible for people," FB spokesperson- brands not out of main feed - sarah's brands showing up if high engagement

july polls: poll of almost 2k FB users in the U.K. 4% of respondents reported liking multiple Facebook pages, but still hiding them from their News Feed. 53% said FB "too commercial," sponsored posts, brand pages and ads - Reuters/Ipsos poll: 34% FB users spending less time on FB than 6 mo ago. 4 out of 5 ppl said never wanted to buy a product/service b/c of FB brand page, post or advertisement.- FB also testing news comments - reply to specific comments, most engaging comments up top.similar to Facebook’s comments plugin intro'd in March 2011.

Liz Gannes article at ATD suggests Google may be headed for their Microsoft moment soon-Person familiar with the FTC probe: “There’s now blood in the water. All these people who have wanted to kill Google, this is their chance. They will never have a better opportunity than the next 30 days.”- FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz told Google Friday vote in the next couple of weeks- Beth Wilkinson (McVeigh case) brought in as litigator1. Exclusive search deals on Web portals, publications and phones (remedy: no more exclusives)2. Exclusivity in search advertising APIs - can't share information bvetween ad systems3. Ye olde discrimination and scraping of vertical competitors (remedy: separate verticals from core search)4. Android policies on search exclusivity in partner phones (remedy: separate advertising from other products)

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Flipboard teams up with Apple to launch new iBookstore-powered “Books” section in its iOS apps

- Flipboard and Apple team up- There will be a new Flipboard Books category available for iPhone and iPad users that will show off books from the iBookstore- Flipboard told TheNextWeb that "it's like browsing a bookstore in Flipboard" with an emphasis on discovery- Flipboard’s book listings only include the publisher’s description, link, and cover art, which takes you directly to the iBookstore.

Q: Is this kind of partnership and presentation going to get people to buy iBooks? What do we think of this move on Apple's part?

- The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is going after ride-sharing services Lyft and SideCar, & car and taxi service Uber.- SideCar and Lyft have have each received fines of $20k for operating unlicensed charter-party businesses by the CPUC enforcement division. they say they aren't charter-party biz - no fleet, no employed drivers, merely connect drivers with rides, handle payment infrastructure- Sidecar CEO tells TC: this is like when the internet didn't fall into existing phone or newspaper regulations. “The ability to know your location with a supercomputer in your pocket… is utterly transforming transportation,” - Sidecar has hired a new head of policy, David Phillips, former AOL lawyer- Lyft co-founder John Zimmer says they beat CPUC's driver requirements for charter-party carriers: background checks, criminal record checks, DMV records, in-person interviews, driver training.

UBER- partners with charter-party carriers. drivers use Uber to collect fares based on the time and distance traveled, which Uber monitors through GPS location data.- Uber thinks CPUC regulation is too much: ceo travis kalanick says Every transportation provider that Uber partners with in California is properly licensed with the PUC (public utilities comm). CA state requirements have been met: insurance, safety,equipment inspection, drug and alcohol testing- Yesterday Corte Madera-based attorney Gary Oswald filed a class action lawsuit against Uber. Suit says San Francisco operations are illegal, says Uber is allegedly “acting as a taxicab company while sometimes denying this fact in order to avoid all regulations governing taxicab companies.”- Uber's calling the lawsuit “baseless,” and claiming that it’s willing to defend itself in court.- changed to "uber" from "ubercab" in 2010 after cease-and-desist letters from the San Francisco Metro Transit Authority & the Public Utilities Commission of CA

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also tomorrow, Desert Bus For Hope 6 starts - Started in 2007 by internet sketch comedy group LoadingReadyRun, is video game play to benefit charity. over the past six years Desert Bus has raised more than $825,000 for Child's Play, making it the most successful charity gaming marathon in the world.

Following on from your discussion about Facebook charging to deliver brand posts to users timeline, the big issue here is that they are double dipping.

In the past couple of months I spent around $800 on Facebook ads to gain about 2700 new likes on one of my pages. I now have to pay again to get those followers to see my posts.

This is unfair.

If I buy ads that lead to likes then those likes should automatically get my posts because I've already paid.

If the likes are organic then fair enough paying to reach them.

It's one or the other but not both.

Love the show!

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There was a recent story about MS working on a voice language translator and then a question about who would really need this?

While watching a foreign YouTube video this morning, it struck me. Video services, movies, and tv could all use the tech to automatically translate or dub video or audio. Especially since I think the article said that the process tries to emulate the speakers voice.

-Does your company need Maximum No Spam? Or are you migrating from Postini to another email filtering service? Then check out MailRoute. -MailRoute offers live support and an easy 1-click sign-up process. Migrate from Postini to MailRoute today and receive email protection services free of charge for the remainder of your Postini contract. And MailRoute will even match your current Postini pricing! It’s a no-brainer. Switch from Postini to MailRoute for free.-Customer Support is key. When you call or email MailRoute, a service ticket is automatically generated and you will receive a call back within the hour, 24/7.-MailRoute is a hosted email filtering service in the cloud for businesses of any size. They love the little guy – they’ll even handle single-user accounts. There's no easier way to filter your email. You don't need any hardware or software, you just point your email to MailRoute, they filter it, and deliver the clean email to your mail server. -Because MailRoute is in the cloud it eliminates the need of having a dedicated server for SPAM filtering.-Set it and Forget it! All that's necessary is to sign up with MailRoute, and then make a change to your DNS MX records to start the flow of clean email. You don't even have to have to own or manage your own email server - as long as you have your own domain, MailRoute can filter your email and send it off to your server, wherever it may be.-MailRoute’s new administrative interface gives you direct control over every aspect of your service – from setting the sensitivity of the spam filters, to adding domain or users, and managing whitelist and blacklists. End users can manage their own settings, and administrators can control them all.Interesting statistics/Notes:Over the last 12 months we blocked over 235,000 spam messages for Tom Merritt. That was 99.7% of Tom's total mail volume! We blocked nearly 600,000 messages for Leo in the last 12 months. That's over 12 million messages blocked by MailRoute for Leo since he started using the service.MailRoute has Disaster Recovery Service (Included with MailRoute): Holds mail (up to 15 days, no file limit) if server goes down.Offer:Try it for free. Visit mailroute.net, click the Signup button and enter the promo code TNT to start your 15 day free trial and to get 10% off for the life of your account.No credit card required for the free trial. That’s mailroute.net, click the Signup button and enter the promo code: TNT

This episode is brought to you by:The New Squarespace.com - - now it’s faster and easier than ever to create a highquality website, blog or online portfolio. Squarespace has launched a new content management system - - Squarespace 6.● While Squarespace is still focused on ease of use, beautiful design, and giving you the best customer support.... ● The New Squarespace is an entirely new product with a different code base. It uses the latest web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript , and JSON) for speed and flexibility. The New Squarespace gives you and your website users the best mobile experience.● Squarespace developed new templates with mobile-ready responsive designs - - which means your site automatically restructures to look great on any brand smartphone, tablet, or computer.● When you add an image to your site, 7 different versions are created so the correct size loads for the device ---- so your site looks professionally designed no matter how it is viewed. The New Squarespace is faster and easier than ever.Squarespace - 24● It has beautiful templates, with 100% Drag and Drop functionality for all customization tools. ● There is a new page builder tool called the LayoutEngine that enables you to customize pages in seconds by adding “blocks” of content such as: photos, videos, text, social media content and immediately preview layout as you go.● This makes it even easier for anyone to build a site. The New Squarespace gives you better social media integration.● Automatically import, sync and publish to and from social media with a few clicks, dynamically refreshing your site content and raising awareness in your social circles. ● For example: automatically pull photos from Instagram into your site, instantly sync pages and galleries to Facebook, auto-publish new blog entries on Twitter. ● Social media buttons to connect with all the services you love - through Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Foursquare, Drop box, LinkedIn, Pintrest, StumbleUpon and more. The New Squarespace is exceptionally well designed. ● Squarespace has an award winning design team and User Experience experts.● They created a whole new set of sophisticated design templates - - they reflect modern web style while using highly intuitive navigation. ● Each template also has hundreds of customization options available to change grid layout, colors, over 300 fonts and more. The New Squarespace integrates all your website needs - - domains, design, development, hosting and customer support.● It’s a unified service making it faster and easier than ever to create a high quality website, blog or online portfolio. ● And it offers over 50 new and improved features. Offer:For a free trial, go to Squarespace.com. [no show-specific url]● Sign up for a free account.● No credit card needed, just try it out, and start building your website.● Then if you decide to purchase it, use offer code TNT11 and get 10% off your first purchase on New Squarespace accounts (includes monthly and annual plans). And don’t forget about FREE domain registration with annual plan subscriptions. ● That’s Squarespace.com, and use offer code TNT11.Squarespace - 24● Note: Current Squarespace customers can convert their accounts and content to the New Squarespace (code) whenever they choose to, or they can keep their site in the current Squarespace code.

This episode of [show] is brought to you by Ford, featuring SYNC’s versatile entertainment features, such as:• Browsing – Browse your music collection by genre, album, artist, playlist or song title, all using voice commands.• Playlists – SYNC allows voice-activated control of your media player – it’ll even play a list of music you're in the mood for, with the “Play similar music” voice command.• Listen to your entertainment on most any device – Voice-control music, no matter how it’s stored . . . on your smartphone (via Bluetooth® streaming), USB drive, or MP3 player (iPod®, iPad® etc.)• iTunes® Tagging – You don't have to worry about remembering the name of that great song you just heard. Available SYNC with MyFord Touch® and HD Radio™ technology with iTunes® Tagging . . . that lets you tag a song you like, transfer that info to your iPod®, and purchase the song directly from the iTunes® store at a later time.Best of all, Ford offers SYNC on every 2012/2013 Ford vehicle sold in the USA, including the 2012 Ford Focus.You can learn more about this and other technologies Ford is bringing to its vehicles at Ford.com/technology.

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Should you fear the new Skype vulnerability? Facebook's magic stock recoveryIs AMD for sale or not? http://live.twit.tv/

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The Next Web reported on a security hole in Skype that's been discussed on some Russian forums for the past two months. The vulnerability allows anyone who knowsthe email address associated with a Skype account to reset the password and take over the account. The Next Web alerted Skype to the issue several hours before publishing the story, and Skype has suspended password resets while they investigate.

Google TV's getting another update! The platform is rolling out voice navigation and an updated content-discovery interface! “When we first did Google TV, it felt more like a computer,” Google TV product manager Rishi Chandara told Wired. “It shouldn’t have. The magic doesn’t come from a complex UI. It comes from the user trying to do something and it happening really quickly. We’re trying to make it as simple and easy as possible to access content.”

Did you think widespread patent peace would start with the HTC-Apple patent settlement? Don't you worry. A Samsung executive said that the company "had no intention" on following HTC's lead - meaning no peace with Apple. Meanwhile, Samsung has publicly denied raising prices on its processors made for Apple telling a Korean newspaper that the prices were agreed upon at the beginning of each year and aren't easily changed. The lawyer in me says that statement means the hike is for next year.

Gartner's numbers for worldwide mobile device sales confirm Samsung and Android as the world leaders. Samsung had 22.9% of the phone market in the third quarter followed by a falling Nokia share of 19.2 and a new number 3 in Apple at 5.5. 72.4% of phones sold run Android followed by 13.9% running iOS and RIM rising to third at 5.3%, buoyed by Symbian's plummet from 2nd to 5th.

RIM's busy with the upcoming launch of the BlackBerry 10, and BlackBerry 10 smartphones scheduled to hit retail shelves "not too long after" the planned January 30 launch event., but not too busy to also roll out BBM 7! the new open beta of Blackberry Messenger includes free Wi-Fi calling between all BBM users. The solution could help users to save on voice minutes — so long as they have Wi-Fi available. Just don't expect this feature to work on cellular networks any time soon, RIM says there are "no plans currently for that capability."

The fiber! it's alive! Google Fiber went live in Kansas City on Tuesday. The service offers 1Gbps for $70 per month. Real life tests show speeds consistently at 600 to 700Mbps on a wired network. One Google Fiber user complained that he'd get spoiled with Google's network and other networks would seem too slow. Boo hoo for you gigabit boy.

A $250 million class-action lawsuit has been filed against U.S. pizza chain Papa John's for allegedly sending illegal text messages.The plaintiffs alledge Papa John's sent a total of 500,000 unwanted messages in early 2010. Some customers complained they received more than 15 texts in a row, sometimes during the night, according Donald Heyrich, an attorney representing the class.

Microsoft's Andy Lees, who was moved out of running the Windows phone division less than a year ago, is now head of corporate development and strategy at microsoft! Lees has been working on"a time-critical opportunity focused on driving maximum impact in 2012 with Windows Phone and Windows 8" for the past 11 months, will now report directly to Microsoft CFO Peter Klein rather than Steve Ballmer.

Reuters reported yesterday that chip-maker AMD hired JPMorgan & Chase to explore a potentialsale. AMD issued a press release denying the report saying they believe in the strategy the company is pursuing. The statement said, "AMD is not actively pursuing a sale of the company or significant assets at this time.” Actively? Maybe they're lazily pursuing it then?

There's a big opportunity in maps on iOS and Nokia wants to take advantage of it. Nokia will release a maps app and it's called "Here." The app will be free and will offer offline support. That's not all - Nokia is also working to bring its maps to Android and is forming a partnership with Mozilla for its Firefox OS.

-Voice search with natural language that uses Google's KNowledge graph: "Pixar movies" "Movies with Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale"- New on-screen guide called "PrimeTime" dynamically learns favorite shows and channels, shows you on-demand options for currently playing programs (like movies)- New sharing from mobile devices- Coming first to LG TVs then to other second-generation Google TV producs in the coming months- First-gen Google TV boxes get new guide and YouTube sharing only

- in coming weeks Nokia to release a maps app called Here in app store, free. will also release toolkit for programmers to make Nokia-powered mapping apps for Android phones. Partnering with Mozilla to develop location features for its new operating system, called Firefox OS.- Nokia maps supposed to set Lumia phones apart, but sales sluggish- CEO Steven Elop says they need users. but mass adoption most important, but Lumia phones have City Lens that enables users to point the camera at real-world objects and see data overlaid on top of them on the screen.- race to beat google on ios. how long does nokia need to convert ppl? what would it take to replace google maps on android?

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- Former Windows Phone head Andy Lees has a new job. He's the VP in charge of corporate strategy and development- he will oversee the corporate development team headed by Marc Brown and the corporate strategy group led by Charlie Songhurst. - Lees will reports to CFO Peter Klein now as opposed to CEO Steve Ballmer.- Andy Lees originally oversaw Windows Phone and the Kin devices, but has since been working closely on a deal with Barnes & Noble to bring a reader app to Windows 8- His job in these past months has been described as “a time-critical opportunity focused on driving maximum impact in 2012 with Windows Phone and Windows 8.”

Q: Does the move look reactionary or does this point towards a power struggle (re: Sinfosky out)?

- Reuters reported Advanced Micro Devices hired JPMorgan Chase & Co to explore options, which could include a sale- Sources told Reuters on Tuesday that an outright sale of the company is not a priority, and other options for AMD could include a sale of its portfolio of patents.- AMD said in an email to Reuters, "AMD is not actively pursuing a sale of the company or significant assets at this time."- Microsoft Corp, Google Inc, Samsung Electronics, Intel Corp and even Facebook Inc have been suggested by Wall Street analysts

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- big lockout expiration is over - 773M shares now avail to sell off. Facebook stock up today - 21.91,10.22% climbing. It represents a 5B market capitalization gain.- the number of shares being borrowed — a proxy for short selling — has dropped by almost 40% this month, and sits at the lowest level since June, according to SunGard Financial Systems’ Astec Analytics unit, which tracks short-selling data. - why short sell? Investors who want to short stock borrow shares and then sell them, betting that the price of the shares will fall and that they buy them back at a lower price-504 million shares held by Mark Zuckerberg are eligible, but he declared that he wouldn’t sell them.- what does it mean? 1) the stock has bottomed out, investors think it'll stop falling. 2) investors don't want to sell

- Yesterday, Facebook hired Zynga CFO David Wehner as VP of Corporate Finance & Business Planning. The company revised its forecast for next earnings as well.- mark cuban says the Mavs & other investment co. are moving off FB. he told readwrite: "The big negative for Facebook is that we will no longer push for likes or subscribers because we can't reach them all. Why would we invest in extending our Facebook audience size if we have to pay to reach them? That's crazy. says tumblr, new myspace, instagram, twitter are more attractive. "The right price is to charge an upfront fee for brands. In the current system there is complete uncertainty on the cost. And even worse, at least for our size brands, you have to deal with the pricing for each posting, which is a time waster."

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Regarding Yahoo Mail trying to be like Gmail. This may be good, however one of the biggest problems Yahoo faces (that Google has licked) is spam.

Google's pretty good with dealing with spam messages, most if mine go to Spam folder, when two or three slip through to my Inbox.

One bad thing [about Gmail is] is you may have multiple folders/labels, but only one actual message ever, so i have to constantly have to "think" before deleting a message from Sent Items or Air-mail folder, knowing that it will be deleted from all folders.

With Yahoo (or any other service) your mail is safe if deleted from one folder.

However, Yahoo needs to do a spring clean in spam before they start improving the GUI, or anything else.

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While the caller mentioned that rewards programs could be better utilized if you could program them with Google Wallet, the idea of how these programs work is wrong. The reason these programs exist is because the merchant accepting the card is actually paying more to accept the card.

In the background, rewards cards go through a higher interchange rate than a standard credit card. On top of that, most processing ISOs set up their merchants so that rewards cards fall in to some of the most expensive rate categories, making more money for the ISO. They do this because they can. That may sound dismissive, but that's the reality of the credit card processing world. Unless you're with the extreme minority of honest ISOs, you are being screwed on your rates.

-Does your company need Maximum No Spam? Or are you migrating from Postini to another email filtering service? Then check out MailRoute. -MailRoute offers live support and an easy 1-click sign-up process. Migrate from Postini to MailRoute today and receive email protection services free of charge for the remainder of your Postini contract. And MailRoute will even match your current Postini pricing! It’s a no-brainer. Switch from Postini to MailRoute for free.-Customer Support is key. When you call or email MailRoute, a service ticket is automatically generated and you will receive a call back within the hour, 24/7.-MailRoute is a hosted email filtering service in the cloud for businesses of any size. They love the little guy – they’ll even handle single-user accounts. There's no easier way to filter your email. You don't need any hardware or software, you just point your email to MailRoute, they filter it, and deliver the clean email to your mail server. -Because MailRoute is in the cloud it eliminates the need of having a dedicated server for SPAM filtering.-Set it and Forget it! All that's necessary is to sign up with MailRoute, and then make a change to your DNS MX records to start the flow of clean email. You don't even have to have to own or manage your own email server - as long as you have your own domain, MailRoute can filter your email and send it off to your server, wherever it may be.-MailRoute’s new administrative interface gives you direct control over every aspect of your service – from setting the sensitivity of the spam filters, to adding domain or users, and managing whitelist and blacklists. End users can manage their own settings, and administrators can control them all.Interesting statistics/Notes:Over the last 12 months we blocked over 235,000 spam messages for Tom Merritt. That was 99.7% of Tom's total mail volume! We blocked nearly 600,000 messages for Leo in the last 12 months. That's over 12 million messages blocked by MailRoute for Leo since he started using the service.MailRoute has Disaster Recovery Service (Included with MailRoute): Holds mail (up to 15 days, no file limit) if server goes down.Offer:Try it for free. Visit mailroute.net, click the Signup button and enter the promo code TNT to start your 15 day free trial and to get 10% off for the life of your account.No credit card required for the free trial. That’s mailroute.net, click the Signup button and enter the promo code: TNT

This episode is brought to you by:The New Squarespace.com - - now it’s faster and easier than ever to create a highquality website, blog or online portfolio. Squarespace has launched a new content management system - - Squarespace 6.● While Squarespace is still focused on ease of use, beautiful design, and giving you the best customer support.... ● The New Squarespace is an entirely new product with a different code base. It uses the latest web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript , and JSON) for speed and flexibility. The New Squarespace gives you and your website users the best mobile experience.● Squarespace developed new templates with mobile-ready responsive designs - - which means your site automatically restructures to look great on any brand smartphone, tablet, or computer.● When you add an image to your site, 7 different versions are created so the correct size loads for the device ---- so your site looks professionally designed no matter how it is viewed. The New Squarespace is faster and easier than ever.Squarespace - 24● It has beautiful templates, with 100% Drag and Drop functionality for all customization tools. ● There is a new page builder tool called the LayoutEngine that enables you to customize pages in seconds by adding “blocks” of content such as: photos, videos, text, social media content and immediately preview layout as you go.● This makes it even easier for anyone to build a site. The New Squarespace gives you better social media integration.● Automatically import, sync and publish to and from social media with a few clicks, dynamically refreshing your site content and raising awareness in your social circles. ● For example: automatically pull photos from Instagram into your site, instantly sync pages and galleries to Facebook, auto-publish new blog entries on Twitter. ● Social media buttons to connect with all the services you love - through Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Foursquare, Drop box, LinkedIn, Pintrest, StumbleUpon and more. The New Squarespace is exceptionally well designed. ● Squarespace has an award winning design team and User Experience experts.● They created a whole new set of sophisticated design templates - - they reflect modern web style while using highly intuitive navigation. ● Each template also has hundreds of customization options available to change grid layout, colors, over 300 fonts and more. The New Squarespace integrates all your website needs - - domains, design, development, hosting and customer support.● It’s a unified service making it faster and easier than ever to create a high quality website, blog or online portfolio. ● And it offers over 50 new and improved features. Offer:For a free trial, go to Squarespace.com. [no show-specific url]● Sign up for a free account.● No credit card needed, just try it out, and start building your website.● Then if you decide to purchase it, use offer code TNT11 and get 10% off your first purchase on New Squarespace accounts (includes monthly and annual plans). And don’t forget about FREE domain registration with annual plan subscriptions. ● That’s Squarespace.com, and use offer code TNT11.Squarespace - 24● Note: Current Squarespace customers can convert their accounts and content to the New Squarespace (code) whenever they choose to, or they can keep their site in the current Squarespace code.

This episode of [show] is brought to you by Ford, featuring SYNC’s versatile entertainment features, such as:• Browsing – Browse your music collection by genre, album, artist, playlist or song title, all using voice commands.• Playlists – SYNC allows voice-activated control of your media player – it’ll even play a list of music you're in the mood for, with the “Play similar music” voice command.• Listen to your entertainment on most any device – Voice-control music, no matter how it’s stored . . . on your smartphone (via Bluetooth® streaming), USB drive, or MP3 player (iPod®, iPad® etc.)• iTunes® Tagging – You don't have to worry about remembering the name of that great song you just heard. Available SYNC with MyFord Touch® and HD Radio™ technology with iTunes® Tagging . . . that lets you tag a song you like, transfer that info to your iPod®, and purchase the song directly from the iTunes® store at a later time.Best of all, Ford offers SYNC on every 2012/2013 Ford vehicle sold in the USA, including the 2012 Ford Focus.You can learn more about this and other technologies Ford is bringing to its vehicles at Ford.com/technology.

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Microsoft announced thet Steven Sinofsky head of ridiulously long explanatory blog posts as well as the Windows and Windows Live Division will leave the company immediately. Head of Windows Planning, Julie Larson-Green will take over lead of the Windows engineering side while Division CFO Tami Reller will take on businessa and marketing strategy for Windows.

They're watching you!!!! Government surveillance of citizens' lives is rising sharply around the world, according to Google's latest report handing off user data to official agencies. In the 1st half of 2012, authorities worldwide made 20,939 requests for access to personal data from Google users, including search results, access to Gmail accounts and removal of YouTube videos. Requests are rising steeply... from a low of 12,539 in 2009, when Google first published its Transparency Report.

It's a bird, it's a plane, nope. It's a lawsuit going to trial. The battle between Motorola and Microsoft is underway in federal court. At issue in the case is standards-based patents owned by Motorola related to H.264 video and Wi-Fi. Microsoft initiated the suit saying Motorola violated promises it made to license the patents at fair and resonable rates. Motorola wants about $4 billion per year, Microsoft says it'll glady pay $1.21 Million a year. The trial ought to sort out that number.

67-year-old John McAfee, founder of the security company McAfee is on the run from police in Belize on suspicion of murder of his neighbor, 52-year-old Gregory Faull. Police found Faull floating in his pool, dead from a gunshot wound to the head. Wired's Joshua Davis spoke with McAfee who is concerned that whomever shot Faull was actually after McAfee. He plans to remain in the country in hiding. Wired plans to publish a story about McAfee in the January issue of the mgazine.

The Nexus 4 went on sale in Europe today and it's selling, selling like hotcakes, in fact, it sold out within minutes! Both versions of Nexus 4 are now listed as ‘coming soon’ on the Play Store in the U.K., and the 32GB version of the Nexus 10 tablet is also no longer in stock. Many users are also complaining Play Store errors prevented them from bagging their intended Nexus. Google said it has nothing to share on Nexus sales figures at this time.

There's a new competitor in the wearable fitness gadget race, but it's an old one. Say hello to the new Jawbone Up. It'll track your fitness and sleep patterns. Unlike the first generation Up, Jawbone says that the new version has been toughened up extensively so it won't fall apart like the original did.

Many of you are still playing Call of Duty Black Opps II after picking it up at midnight, but the higher-stakes game is which franchise will break the most records for sales. Microsoft reports Halo 4 sold $220 million worth of games in its first 24 hours after launch on Nov. 6. That's bigger than the biggest movie launch of all time, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Let the games begin!

Text messaging volume in the U.S. has declined for the first time ever, according to a new research report by Chetan Sharma which looked at mobile data in the 3rd quarter of this year. Sharma attributed the declines to "the rise of IP messaging" and the fact that "operators have been slow to evolve their strategies in the segment." Apple's iMessage, Facebook Messenger, Pair, all those non-SMS chatting options, are cutting into carriers' bottom lines.

Google announced a new feature that allow YouTube videos to be pushed from an Android device to a Google TV. yes Google TV has its own YouTube app, but the idea is to use your Android device like a remote. The video isn't actually streamed from the device like Apple AirPlay, but found by Google TV and streamed directly from there.

Can your processor ever have too many cores? Intel's released its first 60-core processor called the Phi. It's more like a GPU and less like a CPU. If you're wondering when you'll get a chance to play with the Phi, you'll have to wait unless you're Stephen Hawking. That's right, Stephen Hawking and the Cosmos Lab at the University of Cambridge will have early access to the processor in their SGI supercomputer.

Steven Sinofsky President of Windows and Windows Live left Microsoft last night-"growing tension" between Sinofsky and other executives "not a team player"- Reportedly Gates backed Ballmer in the departure. -Previous departures of J Allard, Robbie Bach, Stephen Elop and Ray Ozzie - Ballmer cited need for “more integrated and rapid development cycles for our offerings.” in press release. IN proxy statement MS wrote: ""For 2013, the focus of awards under the Plan will shift from performance ofseparate business groups to a combination of business group and company-wide performance. "- In internal email cited need to cooperate across groups three timesSinfosky started at MS 1989 Software development engineer- In his internal email "It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company. I am beyond grateful." -- "The brevity of this announcement is simply a feature." -- "this was a personal and private choice that in no way reflects any speculation or theories one might read"

- Bank of America’s Merchant Services launching Mobile Pay on Demand on 12/3, a service that allows small business owners to accept customer payments over a cellphone.- “I hate to come out with a commodity product, but every bank should have one,” said Trevor Rubel, the EVP of Bank of America’s Strategy and Emerging Products.- Bofa says it has potential customers already, two million small-to-mid-sized businesses that don’t use its payment terminals - next-day access to funds, and customer service reps available by phone. - retailers will be the merchant of record, "joe's applesauce" on my credit card statement instead of Bank of America’s or some other provider.- if sign up by EOY, receive a 1-year sub to bofa deals marketing platform, normally $200. allows business owners create Web site w Groupon-like offers, coupons or loyalty programs. syndicated across Facebook, Twitter, or 8coupons.com. When offers are redeemed, BofA will charge merchants small fees.

- AllThingsD reports that Yahoo's going to overhaul Yahoo Mail- Sources say it's a cleaner "more Gmail-like" look- The goal of the redesign is to better compete with Gmail- Sources said the latest iteration of Yahoo Mail will be released in early December, just after the new homepage is rolled out widely.

Q: What would Yahoo Mail have to do to compete with Google? What killer features do you want to see?

- There's a brand new Jawbone Up- The UP lets you track movement, sleep, and nutrition.- It'll cost $130- The first version of the Up was met with mixed feedback. Lots of problems with wear and tear- Jawbone told CNET that the second generation Up is designed to withstand 24/7 usage- The company came up with an internal rugged standard higher than some military standards- Jawbone says it identified two critical flaws that it has subsequently fixed. The first was improper bonding, which casued water issues. - There was also a secondary issue related to pliancy and flexibility, which its also fixed.- Available in black right now, eventually other color options- No Android app yet, iOS only

- Gogo will today begin offering faster in-flight Wi-Fi to 25 planes from US Airways, Delta, and Virgin, expanding to additional aircraft from United p.s. and American Airlines in 2013.- existing ATG-3 framework tops out out at a 3.1Mbps, inadequate when shared between dozens (or hundreds) of passengers. and is down a lot.- new framework is ATG-4 — powered by EV-DO Rev. B. cellular technology — should improve experience.- in sept customers noticed Gogo was charging $10 per hour on flight from NY to SF. $60 for a flight??? Gogo Unlimited and the Traveler Pass — remain at their previous $39.95 and $34.95 price-points.

Gogo representative told VentureBeat that "we are experimenting with different pricing on various flights" and that "we want pricing to reflect demand on any given route."

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New Apple program "Blue Sky" gives employees 2 weeks out of normal schedule for special projects- Jessica Lessin at WSJ reports "keep employees from taking their leave of the company so quickly"- Frequently being compared to Google 20% Time.Q: Indicative of a change of culture at Apple? Good or bad?

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Apple and HTC surprised folks this weekend by declaring patent peace between the two companies. The two have been fighint patent battles since 2010, but now have agreed on a 10-year cross-licensing deal. The terms were confidential, but Analyst Shaw Wu reports his sources say HTC will pay between 8-10 dollars per Android handset.

RIM president and ceo Thorsten Heins announced in a press release that the BlackBerry 10 Launch event is happening January 30, 2013. The event will happen simultaneously in multiple countries around the world, along with BB10 phone details.

Digitimes says that Apple is already working on the next iPhone, the iPhone 5. The site says that Apple ought to have trial production started in December with production at full steam ahead starting up in Q1 of 2013. The reason? The yield rates for iPhone 5 is low, so Apple's accelerated the certification process for the next phone instead.

Steve Ballmer told French newspaper La Parisien that sales of the Microsoft Surface "are starting modestly" due to the restricted availability online and in Microsoft Stores. Ballmer took the opportunity to extoll the virtues of the Surface Pro running Windows 8 which should be out after the first tof the year.

Samsung has raised the price of the mobile processors the company supplies to Apple by 20%. Korea's Chosun Ilbo reported Monday, citing a person familiar with negotiations between the two. According to the report, Apple buys all APs used for production of iPhone and iPad from Samsung Electronics with the volume estimated to be 130 million units last year and more than 200 million units this year, with a contract through 2014.

Tomorrow "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" launches and USAToday reports that the game will have an impact - on productivity. USAToday interviewed some bosses and found that they expect a number of employees to take the day off and others to have unplanned absences. "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" hits stores at midnight.

YouTube is getting ready to decide which of its partner channels it will renew and which will be set free. All Things D reports YouTube estimates it will fund around 40% of the 160 channels it launched last year. Channels that don't receive a second round may continue on YouTube and keep more of their ad revenue.

After the Gabon government shut down kim dotcom's Me.ga domain idea, Mega holding site is now live at New Zealand-based domain Mega.co.nz. A statement by Dotcom on twitter read "New Zealand will be the home of our new website: Mega.co.nz – Powered by legality and protected by the law." At this point the site only offers an email sign-up to keep up on news of the launch, plus links and information for hosting partners, developers seeking APIs and financial investors.

NVidia and AMD both announced new high-performance graphics chips for supercomputers today. Nvidia Nvidia unveiled the Kepler 2 K20 and K20X cards. The K20X powers the new king of Supercomputers, Titan, a 20-petaflop supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. AMD announced the FirePro SM10000 GPU, which targets high-performance computers and servers in virtualized environments.

Here we go, hardware news from Valve! Gabe Newell told 4chan that the company is already beta testing its hardware. Newell said there are three different controller prototypes being tried out. Pictures of the devices have yet to leak - but this is the Internet. Expect to see pics eventually.

Apple and HTC 10-year confidential deal for current and future licenses. First Apple license to Android maker.- HTC lost at ITC late 2011 (did workaround), HTC's complaint against Apple failed- August 29 Chairwoman Cher Wang said that HTC was "really not" going to settle- HTC pays Microsoft $5 per Android handset in licensing, Shaw Wu said in a note to researchers today that he has spoken with industry sources who told him that Apple will generate about $6 to $8 in licensing fees for each smartphone HTC ships in 2013.- HTC received some patents from Google and bought company S3 Graphics. to beef up its portfolio- recently reported a dramatic 79 percent downturn in year-over-year profits- Nilay Patel points out, Apple may not always succeed like they did against Samsung, HTC a smaller fish, HTC doesn't have time or money to fight, HTC won't have to work around things like slide-to-unlock, HTC may be shifting to Windows Phone- Are the smart wars settling down, or is HTC going to be its first victim?

- Korea's Chosun.com says Samsung has increased the price of manufacturing Apple's application processor by almost 20%. and that it's the first time Samsung has sought to increase pricing on the processors that go inside Apple's mobile devices. Apple has no choice but to accept to keep up with demand- A6 mobile processors are custom designed by Apple but built by Samsung. apple getting RAM and flash storage from other companies but Samsung is tops in prod. volume.

WHY? the verge says maybe significant $4B investment Samsung made in retooling its plant in Austin, Texas, the very same that builds Apple's processors led to need for $$? or writing on the wall that AAPL can eventually move away from Samsung, so squeeze on price now?

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- YouTube is funding a new round of its channels- YT will give a second round of funding to 30%-40% of its original partners. That means a cut at least 60% - Those channel makers getting additional funding will be notified in the next few weeks according to AdAge- Channels that don't get new deals will still be on YouTube (not kicked off)

Jamie Byrne, YouTube’s director of content strategy, says the site is most concerned about engagement — primarily the total “watch time” a channel has generated — and cost — how efficient programmers have been with their programming budget.

Q: Should YouTube be reinvesting in its original partners or is a cut like this (kind of like TV) the way to go for content?

Ballmer told French newspaper LeParisien that sales of the Surface “are starting modestly” because of limited availability (online and MS stores)- Asked about supply shortages of Surface, Ballmer told Le Parisien: “It’s a good sign,” adding that the company will “fix this problem quickly”- Said Windows 8 Pro Surface will be "unique" and "equipped with a new Intel processor with a higher screen resolution."

- Digitimes says Apple's working on the next iPhone already; the 5s would ramp up production in Q1 2013- Digitimes also says Apple's got a new iPad coming in the second quarter of 2013- The iPad would be released a quarter later than the iPhone 5s

Q: Do you think Apple's going to bump up its production schedules with faster updates or is this just another rumor?

“Facing low yield rates in the production of iPhone 5, Apple has accelerated the certification processes for related parts and components for the iPhone 5S,” Digitimes claims, citing the Chinese-language Commercial Times.

- author: Scott Thomas Bruce is the Project Manager for the Partnership for Nuclear Security at CRDF Global and an Associate at the Nautilus Institute and the East-West Center.- govt. allowing up to 1M cell phones in country for 1st time. avail to 5% of population, highest caste/wealth.- Koryolink cell phone system. members can call other members of the Koryolink network, but no intnl calls. State sponsored intranet in NK called Kwangmyong, restricted to elites in NK with good social standing. The intranet has message boards, chat, and state sponsored media; encouraged among university students, technical experts and scientists. - daily state-sponsored texts come in via phones. Intranet activity on discussion boards, closely monitored by NK state security department. network can be shut down by the state.- 1M phones- state will have to choose which calls to monitor, probably focusing on foreigners and senior government and military officials. calling remote areas of the country allows info to flow in news ways. IT in order to acquire scientific information from abroad to support development in North Korea is ok, state-screened of course.

WHY? some IT tools will increase foreign investment in NK, help economy be more efficient. Cell phones and the intranet will help communication b/t Pyongyang and remote parts of NK. limited use of cell phones will encourage investment from China and overseas. lack of cell phones a huge challenge for investors dealing with North Korea.

I am an old timer. During the Vietnam war, I was in the military involved in things that necessitated that I have a top secret crypto clearance. It was drummed into us over and over again that the intelligence gathering "capabilities" that we were privy to, were in most cases more valuable than the actual information gathered. To say it another way, the source is to be protected at all costs.

Flash to the present. The methodology and techniques uses by the SEALS if compromised could jeopardize many missions downstream from the leak.

So did the SEAL team know that they should have kept their mouths shut? Based on my experience, unequivocally yes. Are the reprimands docked pay justified? Absolutely.

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EA's Medal of Honor: Warfighter better be good. It just cost at least 7 Navy Seals their military careers. 7 Members of Team Six, one of which is reported to be Matt Bissonnette who took part in the bin Laden raid, have been disciplined for misuse of command gear and disclosure of classified material, in connection with two days of paid consultation with EA. The sailors lose 1/2 pay for two months and receive punitive letter of reprimand, which most agree will prevent any possibility of future promotion.

It took years of testing and preparing, but the Australian government formally abandoned a plan to filter its domestic Internet. Officials now say that it will use Interpol’s "worst of" child abuse site list as a way to shield Ozzies from the Internet's worst content. The push for a filtering program had largely been promoted by Family First, a conservative party Down Under, but had critics. In 2010, Google told Australia its program had gone too far.

Nvidia announced a record high revenue of $1.2 billion in the third-quarter. Nvidia also said that its non-PC business - that's pretty much its Tegra line of processors - now accounts for a third of its total business. Three years ago, Nvidia's non-PC business accounted for just 7% of its revenue.

AT&T announced yesterday that it will allow any customer with an LTE device on a tired data plan to use FaceTime over Cellular.Previously only customers with a Mobile Share plan could use FaceTime when not on Wifi.Several consumer rights groups still consider AT&T's restrictions on FaceTime a violation of Net Neutrality.

And now the bad news. NPD Group reports total retail video game sales fell 25% from $1 billion in October 2011 to $755.5 million October 2012. Hardware sales fell 37% but accessories sales offset that a bit, rising 5% largely driven by Skylanders Giants. The good news is, these numbers don't include digital sales like Steam or mobile sales like the app store.

Priceline is buying rival Kayak for about $1.8B, just a few short months after Kayak went public! Kayak allows users to quickly and easily compare pricing for hotels, flights, and other travel services. The deal is expected to close in Q1 of 2013. Kayak will operate independently from the rest of Priceline, and Kayak's current management will remain to run the business.

Apple got slapped in the FaceTime! VirnetX is suing Apple again over patents related to FaceTime. The company already won over $360 million in damages against Apple for patent infringements. The new suit targets a different class of devices including the latest iPhones and iPads.

Until now, if you used Pinterest you had to let everyone see what you pinned.No more!Starting today Pinterest is rolling out "Secret Boards". You can keep Secret Boards to yourself or invite selected family and friends.

Judge Lucy Koh will give Samsung one last shot. After the Apple-Samung patent case this summer Samsung alleged that jury foreman Velvin Hogan hid the fact he had been sued by Seagate in 1993. Samsung and Seagate have a close business relationship. Hogan says he was only asked to disclose the past 15 years of his business history. US Federal District Judge Lucy Koh has now said she will "consider the questions."

In universal translator news, Microsoft posted a demonstration of a translation tool that turns English into spoken Mandarin. The crazy thing is, the translated voice is the same as the original. The system uses a library of tones generated by the speaker combined with recorded speech from a native Chinese speaker. Microsoft says that one word in about 7 or 8 is incorrect, but this is a 30% reduction in error than previous methods.

CBS News reports 7 Navy Seals, all from Team Six, 1 vet binLaden raid (Matt Bissonnette? -report a month ago in GamesBeat), disciplined for consulting on EA's Medal of Honor: Warfighter 94 former Team Six members under investigation)- Paid Consultation on authenticity for two days this apring and summer. Game does NOT recreate bin Laden raid. "a visual representation of human action in combat that takes authenticity to a new level." - charged with violation of Article 92: Orders violation, misuse of command gear and violation of Article 92: Dereliction of duty, disclosure of classified material.- punitive letter of reprimand and forfeiture of ½ month's pay for two months.- When CNET contacted EA for comment, PR director Peter Nguyen said, "We do not know if the veterans who consulted on the game were in contact with the Department of Defense."- SEALs consulted on Act of Valor and two other upcoming Hollywood movies with the blessing of Adm. William McRaven, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command

Another Project Homerun Yahoo homepage design being tested looks like Windows Tile interface or maybe Pinterest- More simplified icons for various Yahoo properties, fewer text links, additional social and personalization aspects and — perhaps most importantly — no advertising module at the very top.- plan is to move from several 300×250 sized ad units to a single 300×600, which other sites like AOL have shifted toward- Previous tests showed infinite scrolling, a simplified logo and giving search more prominence,Q: What do we think?

- Danny Sullivan over at Search Engine Land tore apart Google Shopping- The newest iteration of Google Shopping launched on Oct 17th. Search results would appear only if merchants paid to be included.- Sullivan did some test searches for the Kindle Fire HD, the iPad mini, and Halo 4- Kindle Fire HD: Sullivan noted how Amazon is not one of those paying merchants, so you get all kinds of other places and a number of duplicate entries. One result featured the Kindle Fire (not HD)- Sullivan was annoyed that when Google made the switch to paid listings that Google said "this is about delivering the best answers for people searching for products…"

Q: Is Google ever going to get the shopping element right for consumers or are they just happy making money from the vendors? They've been trying (Froogle/Google Products/Google Product Search days) without real success since 2002.

- AT&T announced yesterday any customer "with an LTE device" on a "tiered data plan" can use iOS 6's FaceTime over Cellular feature, no extra charge. Previously, only customers with Mobile Share plan could use FT. says feature will roll out over 8-10 weeks.- AT&T is also making FaceTime over Cellular available to deaf and hard of hearing customers who qualify for special text and data-only packages.- only affects iPhone 5 and iPad with LTE customers with tiered, though not unlimited, data plans.- Jim Cicconi, AT&T's head of External and Legislative Affairs, wrote a blog post about the change. says there was no way for ATT engineers to model usage and network impact so decided to hold off on feature until they knew they could handle it

VERGE SAYS NOT SO FAST- organizations like Public Knowledge and Free Press pushed legal action to get block removed, that's why ATT caved. - a co. like ATT is only licensing spectrum. if you don't use spectrum you license fully for the good of the citizens, that's a violation of spectrum agreement. but FCC doesn't police this enough, so companies "convince" consumers they're doing the right thing- why doesn't FCC intervene more? doesn't have access to internal ATT data. access would take months (if not years) of filings, proceedings, and legal stuff. - john bergmayer of Public Knowledge tells verge: "If it turns out they don't make it available to truly everyone, we still plan to file a complaint. The violation is ongoing until the feature is made available to every plan, including unlimited plans,"

Hey gang, just finished listening to yesterday's show (episode 625) and wanted to share my experience with Waze advertising. I love Dunkin Donuts and am fortunate to have one near my house, but not exactly on my morning route. To keep Waze from freaking out about me going the wrong way for the first mile of my commute, I added a "favorite" location for my nearest DD so I could use Waze's waypoint feature for a combo route. Now, anywhere I go, anytime I get close to a DD (brick and mortar or C-store kiosk) there magically appears a DD logo pin. It may not matter for my daily commute, but when I go out of town to visit family, it will be hugely helpful to have those pins on the map so I can start my morning off on the right foot.

Not sure if DD is a partner with Waze or if it simply knows from my favorites that I prefer DD, but I have yet to be "bothered" by pins for other coffee shops like Starbucks. So, for now, my map is not overrun by unwanted ads and unrequested info. In my book, that's a win...for now.

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The reign of the iPhone is over, at least for a quarter. Strategy Analytics released their market share smartphone market share report for Q3 2012 and the Samsung Galaxy S III grabbed 10.7% of the world market compared to the iPhone 4S's 9.7%. Apple fans can comfortably claim that the iPhone 5 only came out for the last nine days of the quarter and they should be back on top in Q4. Android fans can point out the iPhone fell from 5th to 6th place in China, shout "we're number one" and wave foam fingers.

Only 89.33% of internet searches in the UK were conducted on Google sites last month, according to Experian Hitwise. Seems like a lot, why the long face? Well, it's the first time in the last 5 years that Google search market share in the UK has ever dipped below 90%. Microsoft’s Bing chipped away at the total with 4.71% of all searches, which was a 2012 high, probably related to Windows 8 adoption. Yahoo sites and Ask sites, along with other search engines, grew share in October.

the reign of bad rim news is over! Good news for, RIM! Yeah, seriously! RIM announced that its upcoming BlackBerry 10 OS has received US government certification already. This is the first time RIM's gotten approval before a launch and that also means that government agencies can issue and use BlackBerry 10 devices when they finally launch.

Unofficially I'd guess Digitimes has about a 50% accuracy rate but here goes. Digitimes reports FoxConn, which has plants in China and Brazil, plans to move into more developing nations by opening a plant in Detroit. Also LA but that didn't fit into the joke. UNless it were int he inland Empire. Anyway the report is attributed to "market watchers" which are right up there with trainspotters and birders I expoect.

Winos, it is our time. Amazon launched Amazon Wine today, a marketplace for more than a thousand wines from around the U.S. Customers order directly from a winery via Amazon and are able to ship up to six bottles for $9.99. No free shipping for Primers, though, and each winery operates under its own permits and determines which states it can ship to, and the participating states are limited for now. Both the purchaser and recipient of wine must be at least 21 years old, and all shipments require an adult signature at delivery. Purchases can't be sent to P.O. boxes or Amazon Lockers.

That Square train keeps on rolling. Square's mobile payment solution is now accepted at about 7,000 Starbucks locations. The partnership that I call "SquareBucks" was announced back in August. But be warned Starbucks fans, if you use the Square app to pay, you're not going to get Starbucks rewards - you'd have to use the Starbucks app for that.

Facebook has expanded into feature phone heavy markest like Africa by partnering with carriers to provide their service for free as an enticement to spend on other services. Gooogle's not shy about ripping off that idea, launching Free Zone in the Phillipines. The new service will allow customers of Globe Telecom to get Gmail, Google + and Google Search without incurring data charges.

Fox had called for a preliminary injunction ahead of a copyright ruling on Dish Network's Autohop, a service allowing viewers to automatically skip advertisements on recorded shows, and a judge has rejected it. Fox, Comcast, NBC and CBS have each sued Dish Networks, saying the show recordings are unauthorised, and Fox says it would appeal the latest ruling, and that Autohop is "destroying the fundamental underpinnings of the broadcast television ecosystem". Dish called it a "victory for common sense".

Twitter sent another round of emails resetting passwords for users they suspect "may have been compromised by a website or service not associated with Twitter." British comedian David Mitchell got the email but said the only thing he noticed was one deleted post. And sadly TechCrunch's story "Make $250 A Day From Home" appears to be a result of the hack and not a legitimate way to rack up over $91,250 a year.

I'm on the financial beat today apparently - MasterCard is rolling out a new credit card that has an LCD display and a keypad built into the card. It's a move for security as it pretty much combines the card with an authentication token. MasterCard says the card, called "Display Card," looks and works like the old school card. It'll first be available in Singapore and Europe.

- new report by Strategy Analytics: Samsung Galaxy S III handset outsold the iPhone 4S as the world’s best-selling smartphone in Q3 of 2012.- 18M units in Q3, compared to the iPhone 4S’ 16.2M. S III grabbed a 10.7% share of the global smartphone market compared to the iPhone 4S’ 9.7%- 4S sales were down pre-launch of the iPhone 5 in Q3. 5 sold 6M units and grabbed 3.6% global smartphone market share in Q3, right at end.- Strategy Analytics says iPhone 5 expected to out-ship S3 in Q4

- Research firm Canalys says Apple out of China's top 5 smartphone market for Q3/ local handset vendors saw shipments surge from the sales of low-priced smartphone models- iPhone was #5 in Q2, and #2 in Q1. - Samsung #1 in Q3 with a 14% share in shipments. Lenovo #2 at 13%.- Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific #3- sells smartphones under the brand name Coolpad. shipments in China steadily increase as a result of its broad product profile and low-end handsets sold on China Telecom & China Mobile. - #4 and #5 were ZTE and Huawei

Experian HitWise showed Google search share in UK dropped below 90% for the first time in 5 years- Bing grew to 4.71%. Windows 8 launch may be a factor, Even Ask and Yahoo grew percentage at Google's expenseGoogle has been around 60% worldwide?- TNW has Marbridge Daily report on October search engine numbers from CNZZ- Google down to 4th place at 4.72% left China in 2010 but runs a Hong Kong based domain- Newcomer Qihooo 360 pushed into second with 9.64%, Baidu leads all with 72.97%- Controversy around Qihoo not respeceting robtos.txt and copying search results. All search players required to sign a 'fair play' agreement by government- Loss of Google Maps on iPhone dropped Google Maps to 6th in China (Atonavi first, Baidu second)Q: Has Google search reached saturation?

- Waze is a free crowd-sourced navigation app. - The company is launching its own ad platform, so it will now show ads along your route- Waze says their ads are different than other location-based ones since the ads are based on where you're headed and not where you are at a given time.- Waze will not show more than 3 ads on a map at a given time- Targeted ads: Waze could track where people have visited, but it will use general group data. In the future, Waze wants to use data from FB likes as well

Q: Do you think ads like these are intrusive enough to turn off users of Waze?

- NPD study of 4k web users 13 & up: for Q ending in June, audience for Internet radio services (like Pandora) in US grew 27% from the same period a year earlier.- In comparison, on-demand services such as Spotify, YouTube and Rhapsody, grew 18% over the same period.- AM/FM #1 favorite music-listening choice in US, streaming services and Web radio have replaced the CD for 2nd place.- Since 2009, the percentage of Pandora users who also listen to AM/FM radio declined by 10%.- Listening to digital music files on portable music players also dropped 21%.- 34% of Pandora's users are now listening to the service in their cars.

- Pandora's suing ASCAP for lower licensing on music. had agreement between '05-10. want new agreement thru '15. seeking a blanket licensing fee that would cover all songs represented by the 435,000-member group.- Pandora is supporting passage of the Internet Radio Fairness Act- that would lower the royalty rates that Web radio services pay labels and artists to play music. The music industry says that the sector has been shrinking for more than a decade while Pandora's executives are banking millions. They say creators suffering too much. (50/50 between artists & labels no matter what the rate)

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Google Free Zone similar to 0.facebook.com- Gmail, G+, search at g.co/freezone or http://libre.ph- Search allows free click to one page, other pages send pop-up warning of data fees- Launched in Phillipines in partnership with Globe Telecom- Google product manager AbdelKarim Mardini “We’re hoping Free Zone will make the mobile Internet feel like a necessity that everyone can use, rather than a luxury.”

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- AmEx and NBC Universal's new partnership will let consumers purchase products inspired by NBC universal programs from the Zeebox app- Comcast, NBC Universal's parent company, took a stake in Zeebox back in September- Zeebox is a second screen social TV app that can share info on Twitter and FG and also has an online program guide. Comcast users will be able to use it as a remote control

How it works:- Under the new program, Zeebox will also give users information about how they can purchase show-related items such as clothing and kitchenware.- NBC Universal's DailyCandy website will select the products that might appeal to viewers. - American Express card members can receive $35 back when they use an eligible American Express Card, synced with their Facebook or Twitter accounts, to purchase one of the products.

Q: This is the first big move for Zeebox since Comcast took a stake it. Does this new feature make anyone want to use the app more? Less?

Father Robert asked the question... why does Google want Google Maps on iOS? And you all came up with reasons... but not imho... the biggest reason.

Google wants the DATA it gets from the 100+ million users on iOS back.

Google main business is selling targeted adds based on info it gets from people using its services... people often lose sight of this. when Apple dropped Google maps on iOS Google lost the location/search data for 100+ million users. What's ironic is that you seemed to miss that this is actually the reason why Apple's new really maps suck... because unlike Google, they don't have a rich and diverse source of data from their other services and partners to feed their new Apple Map service like Google does. This was a huge miscalculation by Apple.

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Heard you guys wondering why Skype in China is an issue and Microsoft is not using it there. The reason is that Skype uses a proprietary encryption method that the Chinese government can not open up and inspect. They therefore only allow things like chat and video conferencing that are compliant and use open protocols. So apps like Vidyo is allowed by not Skype. This way they can big-brother the conversation if they want to.

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How Twitter won the election, Gabon not pleased with Kim Dotcom, Guitar Hero maker takes your living room mobile http://live.twit.tv/

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The big winner of yesterday's US Presidential election? Math. Another big winner? Twitter. Twitter creative lead Doug Bowman posted "RIP Fail Whale" we assume because of the lack of any significant outage or server problems for Twitter under the surge of election posts. Retweets got the biggest workout when President Obama's "Four mor eyears" post was retweeted more than 600,000 times, a new record.

The Verge reports that the mythical Office for iOS and Android is right around the corner, with iOS arriving as early as February, and the Android version expected in May. The apps will be free with a Microsoft account required to access Office documents. Editing capability will come only with an Office 365 subscription.

AT&T is making it rain! First up, AT&T announced Project Velocity IP, aka VIP, in which the company will spend $14 billion to upgrade its wireline and wireless networks over the next three years. $8 billion is going to wireless improvements like an expanded LTE network and $6 bn for wireline improvements like fiber-optic lines. AT&T is also throwing $700,000 at the FCC as a settlement for switching some of its unlimited users to monthly plans without consent. Refunds will also be issued to those whose plans were switched.

Kim dotcom's new service Me.ga has already hit a snag. The .ga domain name beloongs to Gabon, and the government of Gabon says it plans to suspend the domain name. Gabon's Communications Minister said the country's doman name "cannot serve as a platform or screen for committing acts aimed at violating copyrights, nor be used by unscrupulous people."

U.S. district court in Texas has ordered Apple to pay $368.2M to VPN company VirnetX for violating its patents by putting FaceTime into Macs and iOS devices. VirnetX sued Apple earlier this year over four patents it owns relating to web video. VirnetX’s technology was originally developed within a division of the CIA for setting up secure communications, and was later spun out into a public company. The company won a case against Microsoft in 2010 for 200M, and has cases pending against Cisco, Avaya and Siemens.

Microsoft is killing off its Windows Live Messenger brand and client for most of the world in Q1 of 2013. Instead, you'll see the Skype name as the brand and have to use the Skype client. In China, the Messenger name will remain. On the backend, Microsoft has rebuilt Skype's instant messaging to use a mix of Azure and Messengers's infrastructure so the Skype client can connect to both Skype and Messenger networks.

Terry Gou, Chairman of Hon Hai, the parent of FoxConn told reporters at an economic forum that the company is shipping far fewer new iPhones than Apple has requested due to design-related production difficulties. Investors are concerned that the scarcity of iPhones may weigh on Apple's earnings this quarter.

Just a few weeks ago, Japan's Softbank announced it has acquired a 70% stake in Spring, and now Sprint has announced it will acquire 30 MHz of PCS spectrum in the 1900 MHz band, and customers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio from U.S. Cellular, the seventh-largest wireless carrier in the US, for $480M in cash and the assumption of “certain liabilities”. Sprint says the additional spectrum will supplement its coverage in the areas as it continues to roll out 4G LTE across the US. The transaction involves approximately 585,000 U.S. Cellular customers.

Netflix still leads the pack of online video providers if you look at bandwidth usage. Research firm Sandvine released a report showing Netflix has 33% of prime-time downstream traffic in September, a slight increase for the same period a year ago. You Tube comes second with 14.8%. Amazon Prime is still small at 1.75% but its growing, passing Hulu's relatively stagnant 1.38%.

Oh this is going to go well. Google redesigned its search results. Say goodbye to the left sidebar and hello to um.. white space where the navigation was. Those tools are now moved to above the search results and below the Google search bar. The redesign is live in the U.S. and will roll out in other regions soon.

- As soon as we heard NBC News and Fox News were projecting the re-election, the Barack Obama Twitter account posted "This happened because of you. Thank you." 8:14 PM- Not all networks had called it. Gov. Romney had not conceded.- A couple of minutes later (8:16 PM) the account posted a daytime picture of the President hugging his wife w/ "Four more years" -- now the most retweeted post ever (>638,000 next most RT Justin Bieber 225K).- Same picture posted on Facebook got 3.1 million likes (and rising)- An email went out to supporters subject line "How this happened" 8:41 PMQ: Is it significant that the first acceptance of the office came over the Internet?

- last week we talked about kim dotcom's new megaupload plan - call it me.ga and make it harder to seize since the domain is Gabon-based. - Blaise Louembe, Gabon's communications minister www.me.ga be suspended and said the small West African nation"cannot serve as a platform or screen for committing acts aimed at violating copyrights, nor be used by unscrupulous people." according to New Zealand publication, Stuff.co.nz- Ira Rothken, the Silicon Valley attorney who oversees MegaUpload's worldwide defense, confirmed in an interview with CNET that MegaUpload's successor site will not be available at Me.ga. ""MegaUpload and Kim are innocent and presumed innocent. It sounds like a lack of net neutrality in Gabon...We're just going to use a different domain."

- DotCom reaction on twitter: “The reach of the US & Vivendi: Gabon Minister announced Me.ga domain will be suspended. Calls cloud storage site cyber crime,”- he's referencing a Numerama article last week which revealed that the TLD of Gabon is administered by Gabon Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Vivendi entertainment group.- me.ga taken over by hackers? Me.Ga domain was directing to a group calling themselves Omega.- Tweet from a account created recently, they call DotCom a megalomaniac, says he's a polluter. want to sell the me.ga domain. “Of course we will entertain offers from @KimDotcom’s enemies in the millions of dollars (or bitcoins) for the Me.ga domain,” they write.“Shall @UMG [Universal Music] buy the Me.ga domain name we will donate not 1% but 10% of the proceeds to FOJEGA the Forum des Jeunes du Gabon [Gabon Youth Forum]

- Venture Beat put a spotlight on Charles Huang's new startup that aims on creating a virtual game console for the tv based on smartphones- Huang is a co-creator of Guitar Hero- The company is called Green Throttle Games and is making a game controller that will work with Android smartphones and tablets when it debuts next year. - The controller connects wirelessly with your smartphone or tablet, which can be connected via cable to display images on the television. The point is to make it easier to play the same games both in the living room and on the run.- Huang is in talks with video game developers to solve that problem so they can create mobile games that can be played by two people on a single big screen.- SDK available today

Q: is the future of console gaming the phone or is the phone just a second screen? Is that an enticing proposition for phone makers?

Design:- It's got a blue bar up top and looks kind of like the old Digg with hints of Facebook- Left side navigation shows trending tags- Middle feed of popular links with a preview pane on the right when you click a story- Preview pane also shows community notes (comments about the stories by users)- very text based (flies in the face of pinterest and its clones)- Looks like you'll have a profile page (which kind of looks a lot like facebook) displaying your links in a similar three pane design.

Beyond the design:- on the delicious blog, the guys behind the site said they want delicious to be fast and it's working on a new iOS app

Q: after seeing the demo, what do you think? does it have a fighting chance?

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Bloomberg reports that no less than three people with knowledge of the work say Apple is exploring using ARM-based chips in its laptops and desktops. While the engineers at Apple don't a see a switch happening for a few years, they also think its inevitable. Apple uses ARM-based chips in the iPhone and iPad.

Halo 4 was unleashed to the masses today at midnight, and the critics are giving it two thumbs up! After reports of repetitive gameplay, enemies, and environments, a "this again" attitude kinda hung over the press push at E3 2012, when Halo 4 led Microsoft's press conference. But Cnet calls it a "must buy!" so you know what that means.. get out there and vote.

How much would you pay for Amazon Prime on a monthly basis? Anybody? Well Amazon agrees with you and is testing an $8 a month option for Amazon Prime. The service would give you access to Amazon's Instant Video library and upgraded shipping services. While it would cost more on the year, about $96 compared to the yearly $80 fee, it could be enticing to new customers.

Instagaram took forever to add Android support to its popular iOS service, but it took even longer to add the older, more widespread World Wide Web platform. That long World Wide nightmare is over. Instagram announced Web profiles that allow users to comment, like photos, and edit profiles.

Microsoft's Surface RT tablet offers twice as much storage as the iPad at the same base $499 price point -- 32GB versus 16GB. So it's better! Unless you actually want to use 32 gb. Microsoft has clarified only about half those 32GB is free for users to access. The total disk size is really 29GB, and then Windows RT, the Microsoft Office apps, and other built-in apps are another 8GB. 5GB more for Windows recovery tools, and you're left with 16GB of free space right out of the box.

Some of you Tech News Today redditors are excited about this next story. The BBC Micro game Elite is back as a Kickstarter project. The game is called "Elite: Dangerous" and is looking to raise 1.25 million British pounds. Right now, it's at over £200,000. The guy behind the Kickstarter project? David Braben, who just happens to be one of the original developers of Elite. He says "Elite: Dangerous" is the game that he wanted "to make for a very long time."

Apple lodged a lawsuit against Motorola in March 2011, claiming the mobile company was charging unreasonably high rates for patent licenses at 2.25 percent of each phone sold. As the case neared trial today, Judge Barbara Crabb dismissed it with prejudice, leaving the question unresolved. The case was dismissed because Apple would not commit to abide by the court's decision. Microsoft has a similar case against Motorola set to go to trial Nov. 13.

Get an Amazon lockers at Staples and get your online shopping packages sent there. Amazon already has such storage units at grocery, convenience and drug stores, many of them 24 hours open. The point is trying to let customers avoid having to wait for ordered packages due to a missed delivery. Amazon sends customers an email with a pickup code, which is entered on a touchscreen to open the locker containing the package. Shoppers have three days from the delivery date to pick up the package.

Chip design competition just got really complicated. GPU designer Imagination Technologies will buy CPU architecht MIPS for US$60 million. The iPhone 5 uses a GPU based on Imagination designs. Mips CPU designs are used in networking equipment and digital TV. While this logically looks like Imagination gearing up to take on ARM, part of the deal sees Imagination and Allied Security Trust taking 498 of MIPS non-processor patents and creating a new holding company called Bridge Crossing. One of the leading investors in Bridge Crossing? ARM.

New Jersey is allowing its citizens to vote via email or fax so they can participate in today's election. Some experts are weighing in and are afraid of miscounts and that email voting will make remove the ability to vote in secret. Princeton University Professor Andrew Appel called email voting insecure and cited concerns of spoofing. Matthew Blaze, a secure systems expert, is concerned that the system may be subject to crashed email servers and denial of service attacks. BTW, go vote today.

Bloomberg reported Apple engineers confident "one day" ARM cna run desktops and laptops as features of mobile devices and PCs become more similar- three people with knowledge of the work- Bob Mansfield put in charge of the Technology group responsible for chip design- Idea is to unify experience by building all products on same architecture- ARM just introduced the first 64-bit ARM cores last month (Cortex A57 and A53 cores)- Elbrus Technologies has developed emulation technology that allows an ARM chip to run software developed for Intel’s x86 chips- Ark Hessledahl at ATD speculates it may be negotiating time for Apple and Intel?- The key question is power vs. power efficiency? Can Apple cross that barrier with ARM?

- The Verge reports another smaller suface is on the horizon- The Verge cites "multiple sources familiar with plans w/in Redmond" that MS is building a 7-inch "Xbox Surface"- Likely to include an ARM processor and high-bandwidth RAM for gaming- Specs could be altered to handle Intel SoCs- Xbox Surface would NOT run a full version of Windows. It'd run a custom Windows kernel- Acc'g to the Verge, part of the Xbox Surface is being developed at MS's offices in Silcon Valley

- Rumors of the Xbox Surface appeared in June

Q: A dedicated portable gaming device from MS is a long time coming. Does this sound plausible and what about the fact it'd be Xbox specific and not Windows?

- profiles going live for all users this week. same profile on web as app. - has some FB timeline qualities, but top images are dynamic, change - path to monetization. brands didn't used to have landing page. now they do. - meanwhile FB for iOS gets filters too, batch sharing in its main app (also has FB Camera app launched in May)- hot on heels of photo filter Twitter news- will FB app take users away from IG if they have filters + BATCH uploading?

Systrom tells ATD: “We believe this is a big step in allowing brands to have an Instagram home on the web where they can share recent shots with just about anyone. We’re obviously very excited by the adoption of Instagram by the world’s major brands and we’ll continue to build products that suit both them and users alike.”

- Foursquare announced a new rating system for locations- Foursquare says it will look at tips, likes, dislikes, popularity, loyalty, local expertise, and check-ins to come up with its rating (system is on a 10-point scale)- You'll find the scores in the "Explore" section of the iOS app (users can also add a score in the same section) and it's also available on the web

Q: With the shift from a gamified check-in app, would this make you use Foursquare more and should Yelp worry?

- Yesterday Guardian quoted sources at Google familiar with its mapping plans say they are "not optimistic" that Apple will ever approve a dedicated Google Maps iOS app. App in development and eady to ship by the end of the year, sources say their plans are only proceeding in "the unlikely event" that Apple will choose to approve the app.- tech blogs went crazy. "how can apple do this, how shady" etc- Cnet says, calm down. show me a dev who's not afraid of app store approval process. apps get denied, yanked all the time.- plus, apple recommended google maps during maps fallout. - plus, apple doesn't want the bad pub. google voice wasn't in app store at 1st, public was pissed, FCC got involved, app appeared.

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After Sandy, New Jersey Becomes an Unwilling Test Case for Internet Voting

Displaced persons in New Jersey can vote by email or fax, similar to a system in place for overseas military - By 5 PM return either by email or fax an Electronic Ballot Application- voting instructions--along with the ballot, electronic transmission sheet, and secrecy waiver--will be electronically returned to you.- E-mail or fax the completed electronic ballot and verification materials as detailed in the voting instructions by Tuesday Nov. 6 at 8 p.m.- Mail (by post) the entire completed application to your local county clerk.- Security concerns, email intercepted and attachments modified, email servers DDosed, Votes may not be secret

Companies like Apple et al are not so fond of releasing model by model sales figures as this data is usually considered 'commercially sensitive'. If you are a competitor planning to build 2 million devices before launching your product, it is terribly useful (from a supply chain management perspective, at least) to know that white tablets sell better than black ones and the 64GB storage capacity model has a comparatively small, but dedicated (read: wealthy), following compared to other storage variants. Oops, did I just give away the secret sauce!?

Anyway - the exact breakdown is pretty useful to competitors. Apple probably sees the iPad as one product with 24 size/storage/colour/radio variants (not including the iPad 2) and not as an iPad and an iPad Mini.

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Despite reports of shorter lines, Apple says it sold 3 million iPads, both Minis and 10-inches, over the weekend, double what is sold on the first weekend of the new iPad launched this past March. But new numbers from the IDC show tablets are following the history of smartphones, as more Android-based devices appear. Apple's market share fell from 65.5% to 50.4%. Samsung rose to 18.4%Amazon grabbed 9% and Asus 8.6%

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says, we're scrappy, but we're gonna grow like a weed! “We’re still relatively small … I expect the volumes on Windows Phone to really ramp quickly,” this was at a meeting at a Windows 8 launch event in Israel this morning, according to Reuters. Microsoft just launched Windows Phone 8 last week in San Francisco, and phone models like the Lumia 920 and HTC Windows Phone 8X will soon be available. Ballmer also says Windows Phone has an “opportunity to create really a strong third participant” in the smartphone world.

Twitter's got a new way to handle DMCA takedown notices. Instead of tweets vanishing from existence, Twitter says it will "clearly mark withheld tweets and media to indicate to viewers when content has been withheld." Twitter says the move was done for transparency.

Remember remember the 5th of November the gunpowder D-Dos and hack. Or something along those lines. It's Guy Fawkes day which means those masks made popular by V for Vendetta and the Anonymous hackers will sell like hotcakes. The Doxing and hacking claims are pouring in fast and furious targeting sites like Paypal, Symantec and the Australian government. Just as fast are the counterclaims of who deserves credit for which hacks. Enjoy the bonfires.

Belkin's Car Charger for Lightning and Charge + Sync Dock are going on sale in mid-November, and will be the first Lightning accessories to hit the market. The accessories are available for pre-order now on Belkin's website. The car charger will run you $29.99, and the Belkin Charge + Sync Dock is case-compatible with a foldaway auxiliary jack, removable magnetic base. No lightning cable because it's meant to be used with Apple's official Lightning connector cable.

According to Strategy Analytics, iPhone owners are less loyal than they used to be! Strategy Analytics found that only a measly 88% of U.S. iPhone users were likely to buy another Apple smartphone. That's down from 93% last year. In Western Europe, the delta is greater. Last year 88% said they would buy another iPhone, this year 75%.

The Hollywood reporter announced that CBS and Hulu have struck a non-exclusive, multi-year content licensing deal that allows the Hulu Plus subscription service to stream programs from the CBS TV library. Series like Medium, Numb3rs, CSI: Miami, Star Trek, I Love Lucy and The Twilight Zone. will be available on Hulu Plus starting in January 2013

The Telegraph reports the both Google and Microsoft have expressed an "extreme interest" in currently unused white space spectrum in the UK, according to a senior government source speaking to the publication. Right now, white space is allocated to broadcast services like television and radio, but Ofcom has been looking to leverage the unused spectrum for rural broadband access. We don't know details of Google and Microsoft’s interest aren’t clear, both could be mulling the idea of deploying free broadband access to their respective mobile platforms.

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that search customization seems to apply to only one Presidential candidate. The Journal searched topics like Iran and Medicare. Those who had already searched for "Obama" found their results customized in relation to the President, not always positively. No customizations related to Governor Romney. Google told the Journal that the Obama customization is the result of more people searching for "Obama" and then one of the political topics.

Here's another chance for people to accuse Samsung of imitating another company. Australia-based Channel News reports Samsung has hired Scott Bedbury, a freelance brand consultant that helped Nike develop several projects, to overhaul its corporate identity, including a new logo. Samsung plans to unveil its new corporate identity in January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

- IDC estimates has Apple’s tablet market share fell from 65.5% to 50.4% during Q3. - Samsung climbed to 18.4% of the market, largest share since iPad was intro'd. - Amazon holds around 9% of the market, thx to new kindle Fire HD tablets announced in Sept- Asus, maker of Google’s Nexus 7 tablet, holds 8.6% of the market, big jump from 3.8% this time last year

Twitter legal policy manager Jeremy Kessel announced new DMCA policy in a post Saturday- Twitter will withhold posts instead of removing them, until "such time as we get (if we ever do) a valid counter-response from the user."- "This Tweet from [username] has been withheld in response to a report from the copyright holder," along with a link to Twitter's copyright policy and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act- Post will disappear from stream but be available at direct link- Requests will also be sent to ChillingEffects.org- Mikko Hypponen of F-secure made his own "removal" post and put it in his feed to show how easy it would be to fake- Differences were it appeared in his stream and the 'learn more' was not linked.

- some FB page owners complaining that FB promotion driving less numbers to sites- seems to coincide w FB promoted posts feature. pay to be featured up top- could FB be cutting traffic numbers in order to make money?- FB says it's not doing anything different. attempts to show you the most relevant updates, just trying to keep user feeds from being too promote-y, delicate balance, but they make money this way- example: blog Dangerous Minds climbed from 29,000 to 53,000 Facebook likes even as traffic to its site, shared posts dropped one half to two-thirds in the same period.- Ars says likes climb and traffic back to Ars seems unusually low. - A post at the New York Observer in September reported that Facebook posts made from a brand's fan page—brands or celebs - now reach only 15% of fans on average.

- BRANDS JUST LOUDER. a couple studies- one from Pew Research says As of May, the average Facebook user had 229 friends and only 17% posted a status update once or more per day. Brandwatch study showed as of August, the average Facebook brand/fan page had 40,000 fans and averaged one post per day.

- NYT reports Twitter will add filters for photos in its mobile apps - According to one Twitter employee, the company’s V.I.T.’s, or Very Important Tweeters, as they are known internally, usually celebrities and media personalities, would be especially happy to see filters in the Twitter mobile apps. - The NYT says that Twitter looked into purchasing other Instagram competitors once the service was snapped up by Facebook, but decided that building its own would be better.- One liner (really interesting): "Twitter is exploring adding other tools to its mobile applications, one employee said, including the ability to upload and possibly edit videos without having to go through a third-party application or service, like YouTube."

Q: Instagram killer or just another checkbox feature for Twitter? And what about that video hosting and editing ability - trouble for YouTube?

Ian Steadman of Wired UK writes about Trend Micro's report, Russian Underground 101,- Buy a botnet for $700 rent for an hour at $2, spyware trojan for $350, million spam $10- Russia has a mature cybercrime market along with China and Brazil ("spiritual home of banking malware"- Fake antivirus and background webpage code ar eles spopular. People have caught on and browsers have patched holes- Ransomware on the rise. Burgeoning market for mobile - Rik Ferguson, Trend Micro's director of security research and communications"We've seen so far 175,000 malicious threats for Android, and we expect that to be a quarter of a million by next year."- "The bad guys are using technologies to drive down costs in the same way businesses are."

- Android is 5 years old: Five years ago, on 5 November 2007, the newly formed Open Handset Alliance unveiled Android -- an open-source operating system for mobile phones. (Apple's iPhone launched on June 29th 2007, unveiled Jan 9, 2007)- It's come a long way. The first demo video shows an OS operated by a D-pad and buttons (very BlackBerry-like). Larger screen device navigated by D-pad as well- The T-Mobile G1 didn't arrive until October 22nd 2008- Set aside $10M for developers

- Q: We've seen webOS come and go, Windows Mobile get the boot (back as WP), mobile Linux variants killed in the past 5 years, are we going to see another disruptive mobile OS like Android again?

Hello TNT folks,I was listening to your Friday episode where you were discussing the Google Wallet feature of a physical card and I was struck by how this sounds EXACTLY like PayPal's Debit MasterCard or their new "PayPal Purchase in store" program.

First this Debit MasterCard is connected to your PayPal account, and you can choose to either have purchases come out of your PayPal balance, or you can connect a checking (or a credit card) account to it. There is also the option of setting a PIN so you can get your PayPal balance out as cash at an ATM, OR using the card as a debit card and choosing "Cash Back" on the pin pad.

The second, and newer way, to pay with PayPal in person is this "Purchase in store" program. At select stores on the payment pad at the register you will tap "PayPal" and enter your mobile number and a PIN. Just like the MasterCard you choose which place the money comes from.

The only way I can see that Google Wallet is different is it allows you to change the payment source via a mobile app… I'm not sure if PayPal's mobile app allows this, but the mobile website does.

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On the Friday show Tom commented that the reason the Nexus 4 didn't have LTE was because it was a Mid range phone. My belief the main reason Google chose not to include LTE in the Nexus 4 was to ensure it could remain unlocked and thereby be maintained by Google.

The Verizon Galaxy Nexus seemed to be the catalyst for this decision. Sprint and Verizon Gnex owners had to wait 4 to 5 months to see the jellybean update while their GSM counterparts received them the week it was released.

What differentiates a Nexus device from every other Android device is the Support and Maintenance directly from Google. Since there is no way to sell a unlocked CDMA device Google can't provide the product support a nexus device demands.

Also if the CDMA problem was magically solved Google would still have to design 3 separate devices (one for each carrier with no carrier support or advertising) or one device with 10 radios.

The Nexus 4 is actually the Optimus G unlocked with a pure unskinned version of 4.2 jellybean with a different body. The specs are exactly the same as the AT&T version which is LGs flagship device. Sorry for the rambling email but just wanted to ensure you knew the back story of the last time Google released a LTE Nexus.

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The Wall Street Journal now reports that its sources say Microsoft is testing a smartphone of its own with Asian suppliers. The phone has a screen between four and five inches, but the sources are not certain whether it would be brought into mass production or not.

The iPad mini officially went on sale today, and there were crowds! Sort of. Reuters was monitoring lines across the world this morning, including Tokyo and Seoul Apple Stores with crowds of 100 or more, but overall, it seems crowds are smaller than they have been in the past for other launches. Does this mean the beginning of the end for Apple? Let's see how the opening weekend numbers look. Analysts are predicting 1-1.5M.

Apple has published an apology to Samsung in the Guardian this morning. In an advertisement that could easily be missed, the text says that the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruled Samsung does not infringe on Apple's design. There isn't an actual "We're sorry" or anything, but at least it's in 14-point font in accordance with the ruling.

Facebook's testing out a new service that gives you free Wi-Fi if you check-in on Facebook. Right now, the service is live in a few business but Facebook hasn't named names. If you're not on Facebook or just don't want to check-in, you'll still have the option to sign in to the business's Wi-Fi using a passcode.

Judge John Lee in Illinois Federal Court ruled that Kywan Fisher owes Flava Works $1.5 million for sharing 10 movies over the Internet using the BitTorrent protocol. Fisher legally purchased the ten movies, which contained an encryption code that identified the copies as his. Damages of $150,000 per movie were assessed. Fisher did not appear in court to mount a defense.

iPhone, or iFone? In Mexico, looks like the latter. Apple has lost an injunction bid in a Mexico City court that would have allowed it to continue selling iPhone branded hardware in Mexico, after a Mexican company pointed out that it registered its name 4 years before Apple did. .The decision stems from a legal action that Apple initially filed in 2009 requesting that the company cease using the iFone brand in order to not confuse the Apple consumer.

Russia's new internet-filtering bill goes into effect today. It was passed back in July under the guise of protecting children from pedophiles. However, the bill also gives authorities a way to censor political speech and spy on the entire nation if it wants to with deep packet inspection.

Samsung announced it sold, not shipped, 3 million Galaxy Note 2 since the device launched in September in Korea. The Note 2 didn't reach the UK until October 1 and just recently came to North America. The oversized smartphone or undersized tablet, has no real competitors in its niche.

The smartphone operating system market continued its consolidation into a two-company race, and some may see it as a virtual monopoly. IDC issued their Q3 market share numbers, estimating Android holds 75% of the market up from 57.3% in Q3 2011. Apple's iOS increased its market share to 14.9% up from 13.8%. The only other gainer was Windows, up to 2% from 1.2. BlackBerry still holds the number 3 position with 4.3% down from 9.5.

A security hole allowing anyone to see the email addresses corresponding to certain Facebook accounts has been discovered! It gets better...some appear to be accessible without even entering a password. But don't worry! a Facebook engineer now says that the company has disabled the feature that created the hole. The vulnerability started getting attention with a Hacker News submission that points to a Google search for the query “inurl:bcode=[*]+n_m=[*] site:facebook.com.” which was linked to potentially 1.35 million personal Facebook accounts, and their corresponding email addresses embedded in the actual URL.

WSJ reports Microsoft testing a phone with Asian suppliers (people familiar with the situation)- screen between 4 and 5 inches- suppliers not sure if meant for mass production- Stephen Elop said last week he would welcome a MS phone because it would stimulate the market- Ballmer: " 'Right now we are working real hard on the Surface. That’s the focus. That’s our core. Look, we’ll see what happens. "

- Facebook's testing a new Wi-Fi hot spot service in a few areas - If you check-in on FB, you'll get free Wi-Fi- First noticed by Tom Waddington (also found the FB "want" button and promoted messages), FB confirmed the service w/ Cnet and InsideFacebook.com - FB provides routers to businesses that direct customers to the business's FB page and potentially deals or specials- Don't want to check-in or don't use FB? No problem. Still can enter a pw provided by the business- The idea comes from a Facebook hackathon session.

Q: Sounds like a win-win, FB gets data, you get free WiFi; what is the a downside to this? Do you think this will become graduate out of testing to be a FB product?

- iPad mini & 4th gen iPad went on sale in 34 markets today. preorders started 10/26- Reuters was monitoring line numbers in Sydney- About 50 people waited for store to open, line was blocks long for iPhone 5- 100 or more outside Apple stores in Tokyo and Seoul, flagship Hong Kong store staff appeared to outnumber those waiting in line.- 100 fans queued in the rain in Amsterdam, while in London's Regent Street about 50 people were still waiting to buy a device a couple of hours after an Apple store opened its doors.- numbers not huge on east coast of US, but current weather issues a factor there

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster predicts 1-1.5M iPad minis in the first weekend. far short of the 3 million third-generation iPads sold last March in their first weekend - says new smaller form factor takes time to sell to potential customers

- last week Yahoo bought Stamped, but also named former IntoNow Founder and CEO Adam Cahan the head of Yahoo’s mobile efforts, enabled screens (like 2nd screens) which includes Flickr. title is SVP of Emerging Products and Technology, will report to Mayer- been at Yahoo since co. acquired IntoNow in 2011. it scans audio from satellite feeds and id's what you're watching

Cahan previously worked for MTV Networks, NBC, McKinsey, National Geographic Television and Google in business operations.- went to the Flickr office this week, will oversee reorg of mobile teams

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Introducing: The Physical Google Wallet Card - Coming Soon To Google Wallet, And More New Features

- Android Police received a tip that there will be a physical Google Wallet credit card- The news comes from within the Google Wallet app- The Google Wallet card would work like a regular credit card and it's linked to another card that you already have.- In theory, you could leave your real cards at home and just carry the Google Wallet card- To manage payment: you can open the Google Wallet app and choose another way to pay.- The card could be ordered from the app itself- Other upcoming Wallet features: "Wallet Balance" feature where you can deposit and withdraw money, person to person transfers, and transit cards

Q: Is a physical card the gateway to getting people to use Google Wallet for everything?

In the app screeenshots, Google explains why there's a card:- When you can't tap and pay- Convenience of one card- Exclusive offers- Cancel the one card

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Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them

Richard Stallman founder of FSF and GNU has an opinion piece at Wired- It's not about software it's about practices. If the practices are executed using software we refer to them as 'software patents' thought they could be implemented in hardware- Posits that substantive changes will be worked around, and eliminating software patents would likely be found unconstitutional- Suggests: "developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement. " - Metaphor is surgery. performing surgery isn't a patent violation, even if the devices and techniques employed in the operation are found to infringe. - Would this work?